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.
Minotaurs at Work@thomasjwebb @tilton Sorry if this is off-topic, but you just reminded me of something I need to get off my chest. Developer self-obsession is something I've been encountering in the wild since I decided to go full AGPL with everything and it's so frustrating. "Copyleft stifles other devs, use MIT!" My dear, you're not who I'm trying to help, I want my software to serve *end users!* And I'm trying to protect my end users *from other devs,* no less!
@minotaurs_at_work @tilton yeah, like sometimes other devs are my customer, like if I'm making an API, but what are we even doing if we're not trying to make everyone's lives better? It especially irks me to focus too much on programmers when we're often (not saying always!) paid better than most other professions. Like if I thought AI made software cheaper at the expense of revenue for the software industry, I'd be for it. Just that's not what it's doing at all.