"And yet it moves" is exactly the phrase that came to mind to me late last year (https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/22/how-i-use-ai-agents-to-write-code/), although I didn't know enough about Thomas Kuhn to put it all together. What's been most upsetting to me has been seeing the programming community torn apart by this, by infighting and accusations and just raw blind _rage_ a lot of the time. People are scared and deserve respect and empathy, but of course the internet isn't much good at that, and is much better at contempt, mockery, etc.

@nolan Re: respect and empathy versus contempt and mockery, I'm trying now, in my contribution to the discourse, to just be honest about what I actually think and feel, in all its ambivalence, rather than posturing for tribal approval. And I know that a big part of my resistance to using coding agents is that I just don't want to change the way I work. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't also want that tribal approval, and didn't fear the _disapproval_ of the anti-AI tribe here on fedi.

@nolan On the ethical objections, my current honest assessment is that I must not really believe them, because I do still use an LLM (Claude) for some things, just not agentic coding. I certainly don't feel a visceral hatred for generative AI as many on here seem to. But I see that as a possible deficiency in myself. Like, I must be missing something important, since the fervent anti-AI folks are part of the "good" tribe, when it comes to politics and, in many cases, marginalized groups.