Great piece and interesting data. The rate of LLM-based writing rejection among developers is even higher than I thought it would be.
To me, the glaring question is: What are we doing? The act of writing exists to 1) externalize and organize one's own thoughts for the purpose of considering and revising those thoughts; and 2) share one's own thoughts with other minds.
When we hand writing to a machine, we hand thinking to a machine, denying both our humanity and our role in the conversation.
This seems obvious and predictable. of course people with flexibility, comfort, privacy, and convenience are better off than people forced into a grueling commute, a sick office, an exposed cubicle and toxic office politics
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