Is AI slop killing the Beancount community? (beancount mail list)

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I worry about LLMs in software development, and I blog way too much about it. I'm a software engineer and I use AI, but I verify the code that I ship to the world. I'm annoyed that the skill I spent decades building appears to be automated. (In reality, some of it is, some of it isn't). Ultimately what matters is outcomes for users. Writing code is a means to that. Writing code is a means unto itself, too, in the sense that painting is.

What I'm doing with Surebeans is demonstrating long-term commitment and building a community and a brand. AI can't replicate this or dilute it.

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