> Also consider, quite terrifyingly, if said developers were in an online group, together, like... here. The one developer who said she thought it made everyone slower (the truth in this particular case), would be unanimously considered an idiot, downvoted to the full -4, even with the benefit of hindsight

Yeah, this is me at my job right now. Every time I express even the mildest skepticism about the value of our Cursor subscription, I'm getting follow up conversations basically telling me to shut up about it

It's been very demoralizing. You're not allowed to question the Emperor's new clothes