Are you steering towards AI burnout? Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account? Disappointed about the code quality in your projects, or worse in “your” own code? This is for you. There are significant and legitimate ethical concerns about frontier LLMs run by big tech companies, these have been discussed at length, I’m aware and agree, this post is not about them. Please don’t mistake me for a pro-LLM techbro. Also: Since people have mistaken my texts for LLM-generated before, I’ll tell you that it is 100% human written without any AI-assistance. Souls in the Great Machine There is a great book of this title by Sean Mcmullen that I enjoyed reading as a teenager, and at the first glance it describes the opposite of our situation: A big computer where the individual components are human, and work together to form a calculating unit.…