Why hobbyist dev circles balk at LLMs: the craft versus automation debate
The piece maps how niche dev scenes—OSDev, demoscene, code‑golf—see LLM‑generated code as cheating, because their reward is the hard‑won mastery of a craft, not just a working program. It concedes LLMs can be a lever for seasoned experts, but for newcomers they strip away the learning experience. The tension foreshadows broader cultural pushback as AI tooling expands.