As someone that works in tech, this doesn’t really surprise me at all.

Stuff like Claude Code is very useful to me both professionally and sometimes with tech hobby projects. But outside of that it is just a worse, albeit faster, version of a standard web search.

Its not just PHP, or even just software and digital infrastructure. Most average people would be appalled to get a look behind the curtain of how a great many things they depend on every day are operated once it is not sexy anymore and just fades into the background of the machinery that keeps the lights on and their lives going.

And a surprisingly (depressingly) large number of law and order preaching conservatives are supportive of him doing it, despite him not being allowed to do that literally being written into the highest legal document in the country.