N-gated Hacker NewsMar 12
🚨🚨Breaking News: Coders are either "craft lovers" who knit code with love 💖 or "result chasers" who just want it done yesterday. Apparently, AI has unveiled this shocking divide that was very visible to anyone who actually looked. 🤔 But hey, some people need a blog post and a pot of coffee to figure out which club they're in! ☕💻
https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/ #craftLovers #resultChasers #AIRevelation #coderCulture #blogPost #HackerNews #ngated
Grief and the AI Split

TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.

blog.lmorchard.com
AlekAug 9, 2022

"With the mass decentralization of culture, even while platforms are becoming increasingly centralized, there’s no way for a sane person to keep up" - Terry Nguyen on trends (and their death, of sorts - at the hand of TikTok).

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23065462/trends-death-subcultures-style?r=hbmw

I like the idea that cultural decentralization fuels centralization at the platform layer. Smart observation. Trends are the new fuel for platform capitalism.

Interesting also because it shifts the conversation from one focused purely on data - and there's a lot of talk about platform capitalism and our data.

Finally, if it's not just TikTok, but also #Mastodon / #Fediverse that get's fueled by trends, then what are the #Feditrends? It seems to me they are all self-referential with regard to the technology, and deep into #CoderCulture. What trends do you see in your part of the Fediverse?

Everything is trending all at once on TikTok.

Coastal grandmother, night luxe, that girl. Anything can be a trend on the internet. Why are we so determined to name them?

Vox