Job Is to Give a Shit

I'm just drinking wine and working late, and it occurs to me that my job in this brave new world of LLMs is that I care. The ability to give a damn seems well outside an LLM's capabilities.

I care about the code and what it is like to read it three weeks from now. I care about the people using this software I'm working on, I want their lives to be spent doing less pointless stupid shit. I think, maybe, that's an ok outcome. Non dystopian. That it's maybe a better world if the people that can contribute the most, are the ones that have passion. That "care" becomes the most highly appreciated skill. That smells good to me. Maybe I sleep good tonight. Maybe it's the wine.