That is one reason I believe. Being told that you need open source presence to be employed.
I think some people also like the feeling of being helpful. And they do not understand reality of LLM outputs. See comments posting AI generated summaries or answers to question. With no verification or critical checking themselves.
I genuinely feel bad for you. At least it isnt difficult to make the transition to AI Agent coding. Even untrained people are able to do it.
At some point your manager is going to force you to AI code. At best you can try to find some healthcare or finance company that is too cheap to buy a machine that can locally run 400B models.
My manager can try. I’ll say no, and he’ll be welcome to start the slow process of laying me off, which will end in my employer having to pay me 10 months worth of wages. By the time I’ll be faced with having to find a new job, I’ll be retiring anyway. Using LLMs is not in my job description, and I will not do it.
Untrained people are producing utter garbage. I am 100% in on AI coding and haven’t typed into the IDE in months but the craft remains pretty much as challenging as ever.
