I'm still frightened and disappointed by the AI gold rush in software engineering (cf. earlier toots about how many SE papers on arxiv.org are "we threw pasta at the wall and some of it seemed to stick") but I'm no longer going to make snide remarks about the people who are using ChatGPT to help them program, for the same reason that ten years ago I stopped belittling people for using Git GUIs: my generation (plus or minus one) made the mess that makes these tools necessary. 4/4