At the risk of exposing my... atypical take on contemporary occupational "morality". LLMs, and Claude Code specifically, have given me the ability to work two jobs, and retain my soft-standing as the "guy" that gets stuff done/knows my stuff/can fix anything, while still working less hours than I did when I just had a single job.
I firmly believe, at SOME point, ML is going to eat my lunch. And I'd like to be well and retired off to a countryside homestead by then. Until such a time, I am going to use and abuse this technology as much as possible to gather 4 paychecks a month, optimize my investment portfolio to scale my NW, and by any means gain financial independence before the risk of my career vaporizing materializes. Sure, I could REALLY try and be one of those engineers that pulls a $750k salary and I wouldn't need to do this; but that isn't really in the cards for me. I know where I stand and I'm simply not smart or hardworking enough to get paid that much from a single job and guarantee my financial independence in the traditional way.
To that end, these tools have been extraordinarily impactful for me in a very simple and objectively positive way. And as much as I relate to basically everything OP mentioned, at the end of the day I simply DGAF. I want to make as much money as possible before the music stops, and this is the smart way to do that right now
I firmly believe, at SOME point, ML is going to eat my lunch. And I'd like to be well and retired off to a countryside homestead by then. Until such a time, I am going to use and abuse this technology as much as possible to gather 4 paychecks a month, optimize my investment portfolio to scale my NW, and by any means gain financial independence before the risk of my career vaporizing materializes. Sure, I could REALLY try and be one of those engineers that pulls a $750k salary and I wouldn't need to do this; but that isn't really in the cards for me. I know where I stand and I'm simply not smart or hardworking enough to get paid that much from a single job and guarantee my financial independence in the traditional way.
To that end, these tools have been extraordinarily impactful for me in a very simple and objectively positive way. And as much as I relate to basically everything OP mentioned, at the end of the day I simply DGAF. I want to make as much money as possible before the music stops, and this is the smart way to do that right now