On my first playthrough of a game, I almost never cheat. Get the intended experience etc.

If I play it again, I almost always look for mods, maps and cheats to add or remove features and allow me to set my own difficulty. Often I want to do a hard mode but without one or two particularly tedious features.

Sometimes I will make a game super easy because I like its core loop but I am not in the mood for a challenge. Or if there’s a achievement that will take ages to get and I am sure I could do it in time but am not willing to expend the effort.

My boss is big into Claude code and has produced something really useful from it. Just a shame that’s a job a software developer could have been paid to do 😢

That’s the thing about bubbles: it doesn’t mean that the thing is useless, just that its value is inflated. We still have websites after the dotcom bubble burst, certainly we still have housing despite several bubbles bursting there. I would be surprised if LLMs go away entirely. OpenAI and Anthropic might not survive, but Google and Microsoft will continue. God only knows what will happen in China. Local models will still be OK. The broader concepts of machine learning, deep learning, big data etc have been useful for far longer than this bubble and will continue.