[josephg]

Some people find freedom in building their own house. Some people find freedom in living in a serviced apartment.

Some people find joy in home cooked meals. To others, wealth is never needing to cook again.

To each their own.

As for maintenance, I think LLMs are actually very well suited for small maintenance tasks. The expensive part of programming is loading and unloading context into my head. "Oh dear, what is all this code doing? Oh no, coffeescript? And some ancient version of express JS? How does any of this work?". LLMs can bomb in, fix a compilation error and bomb out. "This program isn't compiling any more on macos X.Y.Z. Read the patch notes. Figure out why and fix the problem." Perfect.