[NateEag]

> I wish I had that kind of effortless motivation.

It is definitely not effortless - it's a battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_Art_(book)

Over the decades, it's become one I love, and I can see how the struggle has helped me become a better musician, writer, programmer, and person.

Being compelled to use genAI by my employers has largely removed that struggle from my day-to-day, and I hate it passionately.

The replacement of careful thought and fighting to create something compact, elegant, and robust with reading thousands of lines of mediocre generated code, slogging through page after page of uninspired just-good-enough dreck in order to catch the LLM's inevitable moments of absolute failure is mind-deadening and tedious.

I am figuring out what other careers I can swap to if this becomes the new normal.