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I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

Phendan

@phen.dev

In many ways LLMs are doing the gatekeeping, if anything. Non-generated articles with actual authoritative info are harder to find, YouTube tutorial channels either pivoted to model-of-the-week slop or saw their views fall off a cliff, StackOverflow usage has dwindled to 2008 levels...

9/7/26, 1:04 am0 reposts2 likes

Phendan

@phen.dev

9 July

To the extent that learning to code sucks more now, it's in large part because many of those who were enthusiastic about teaching it don't feel like they have a place anymore