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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.

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...