Almost all my tooling is years (or decades) old and stable. But the code assistant LLM scene effectively didn't exist in any meaningful way until this year, and it changes almost daily. There is no stability in the tooling, and you're missing out if you don't switch to newer models at least every few weeks right now. Codex (OpenAI/ChatGPT CLI) didn't even exist a month ago, and it's a contender for the best option. Claude Code has only been out for a few months.
I use Neovim in tmux in a terminal and haven't changed my primary dev environment or tooling in any meaningful way since switching from Vim to Neovim years ago.
I'm still changing code AIs as soon as the next big thing comes out, because you're crippling yourself if you don't.
Nobody is making you use LLMs at all... Just using them is already choosing to be on the hedonistic treadmill
> because you're crippling yourself if you don't
What makes you say this, practically?
There is in fact a shit ton of hella good art being made with Photoshop 6, because it actually has fair feature parity in terms of what people actually use (content aware fill and puppet warp being the main missing features) while being really easy to crack, so it's a common version for people to install in third world countries. Photoshop has been enshittified for about 20 years though.
I bet there is some hella good art being made with Photoshop 6.0 from the 90s right now.
The upgrade path is like the technical hedonistic treadmill. You don’t have to upgrade.