On: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

[Xirdus]

Yes I understand the complaint. It's just that "royal we" means something else.

[lmm → Xirdus]

Talking about the "royal we" is a correct, established (if somewhat sarcastic) way to complain about this kind of usage. It highlights the presumptiveness of the author in their use of "we".

[brianmcc → lmm]

No it doesn't. It comes from the Queen saying "We are not amused" to mean "I specifically am not amused".

[lmm → brianmcc]

It has other uses. But the point is that saying "we" when one is not, in fact, a sovereign, is extremely pretentious.