There’s tons of reasons

- antisocial people

- larpers and students and shit who don’t even have a job where they write code but comment like they do

- people who don’t do shit for 3/4 of the day and don’t want to be accountable for that

- people who work with too many idiots

Probably lots of other reasons. Personally I think it’s fun and useful, but I wouldn’t want to do it exclusively. Maybe scheduled hours a couple times a week. LLM aided development can be very similar experience.

Also a great teaching tool.

Big part of my job currently is taking slop level Pinocchio prototypes and turning them into a real boy. I’ve decided that I’d much rather have all of the conversations these people have had with Claude when creating the project than the final code artifacts. Hopefully we get more tooling in that direction.