When presenting people with more difficult problems, in programming, sometimes there's a knee-jerk reaction like …  “This is relevant for library authors, not users”.

Software developers are not users. Users shouldn't be just users (and many aren't, judging by the success of programming tools like Excel), but at least users don't get paid to build software.

Learning is hard, and a bad attitude doesn't help. Learn, grow, or not, your choice, but ChatGPT is getting pretty good.

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 There are other knee-jerk reactions, too. Another one is:

“This is too academic, not relevant for the real world.” 
“This tool is built by academics interested more in publishing papers, than solving problems.”

This kind of anti-intellectual reaction can hide some actually good criticism, it's a pity that people resort to what's basically populism. These are basically negative feelings being blurted out without reflection, robbing us of learning opportunities.

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