2026-09-29 10:01 UTC
The turn most software devs have taken shouldn't have surprised me. Well before LLMs, most devs I've met had the soul of a landlord
Sometimes "landlord trying to be cool". Sometimes "landlord who wants suffering with the rent"
But both see the world with the eyes of a rent-seeker
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@baldur@toot.cafe 2026-09-29 10:14
A decade ago during a project, I was griping about the trouble friends of mine had been having with their landlord, who was controlling the thermostat remotely to save money (rent was inclusive of bills). This was a shit thing to do when you don't know a family's schedules or even the local weather… But when I was venting about this, the other devs got defensive and angry. Turns out they were both landlords who did exactly the same thing to their tenants