Yep, I'm trying to be the cautious voice in the room in that regard too - appreciate you posting your thoughts on all of this!

I think we broadly agree - I'm trying to be less cynical. There's a lot to be done in terms of leading teams towards making llms work in their context - I'm trying to figure this out for a data eng / analytics team in a conservative environment particularly around tooling and with mixed skills.

But the ux is a thing and it's fine for folk to have preferences. I only really got the whole 'this AI coding stuff is alright' with opencode, but can totally see why some folk like cursor or Claude code or whatever else.

perfume genius lending his music to this is the real insidious bit

Also, it is the year of Linux on desktop.