> not having to expend brain energy to solve problems, and they're mistaking that for productivity

Couldn't this result in being able to work longer for less energy, though? With really hard mentally challenging tasks I find I cap out at around 3-4 hours a day currently

Like imagine if you could walk at running speed. You're not going faster.. but you can do it for way longer so your output goes up if you want it to

I had an LLM sort a crap-tonne of my notes into category folders the other day. My god that was helpful

Side note but the contrast between background and text here makes this really hard to read

Saying they're biased isn't a good argument against their claim. You actually have to disprove the claim

Can you give an example of where monkey patching made debugging hard? I have a decade of Ruby experience and can't think of a single time it was an issue

This is one of those things that sounds like it'd be a problem but it really isn't