The preambles about the externalities of AI, de rigueur before every presentation and blog post, remind me of land acknowledgements before events.


This AI was built on stolen intellectual property and powered by the water of the Western Massachusetts. The output belongs to the software engineers that were displaced by the unchecked expansion of subscription revenue.

I'm not making fun or criticizing. I did it myself at NSCoder Chicago last week! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5Jj-BWkBI
Agentic Coding These Days (NSCoder, March 2026)

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