Tilton RaccoonThis comment sums up why I’m so tired of programming in 2026 pretty well
Thommy@tilton yeah I fucking hate it. It’s so self-obsessed and backwards. We devs should be thinking about how best to serve end-users not fighting a holy war on behalf of dev tool vendors.
Isaac Ji Kuo@thomasjwebb @tilton I am so so so tired of this, and it feels like it will never end, but also ...
I half live in SQL world, and it shows that there is a better way. For the most part, databases all speak one computer language SQL. Yeah, different SQL DBMS vendors have different products with different features, but for the most part you learn SQL once AND YOU ARE DONE.
No endless cycle of the next hot computer language, FOMO, lava layers, blech.
Just SQL.
@isaackuo @tilton probably one of the better use cases I've heard of Claude was someone using it to rewrite things that were written in some proprietary ORM DSL back into SQL. Using one shiny new thing to back out of a previous shiny new thing. I think a lot of Claude users are falling straight into the vendor lock-in trap making special tools for it instead of just making a damn script that they can run on their machine. And letting it make spaghetti code that humans can't understand.