Mx. Aria Stewart22h ago

Okay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/

Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.

This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.

But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.

(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web

I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall…

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Show threadDawn Ahukanna18h ago
@aredridel
OBSERVATION: people are using LLMs to code tools for personal projects, the same way they’d use excel for managing/keeping track of financial/numerical information or hire a rental car for transportation.
Most people don’t re-create spreadsheet software!or car but you still need to know how to use the tool effectively.
What most non-devs won’t appreciate: tool user using LLMs to write code, recreates the tool (excel) to manage data & also uses that tool to manage their personal data.
Show threadMx. Aria Stewart18h ago

@dahukanna yes! For better _and_ worse.

Is an ad hoc heap of mess better or worse than an app someone is renting to you that they can yank the foundations of any time?

Show threadDawn Ahukanna18h ago
@aredridel
There’s value in investing time & effort to create personal digital tools that enable+enhance skills e.g. automatically sort & categorize your human authored content.
I’m more & more convinced that digital literacy is “self-sufficiency” human challenge underlying observed symptomatic behaviour because some of that LLM produced code could’ve been a human produced script/code using existing tools if people knew how instead of it being held to ransomeware by a “monthly subscription”.
Show threadDawn Ahukanna

@aredridel

Related to your “yank and rip out from under you” comment - https://23.social/@leyrer/116307853170954292

“To manage growing demand” … shift gear and then yank!

leyrer (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "Time is an illusion, AI time doubly so"

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Mar 28 at 5:49pmToot!
Show threadMx. Aria Stewart16h ago

@dahukanna Hah yeah sigh.

this RAM shortage sucks.

There's a reason I'm not depending on OpenAI or Anthropic.