I genuinely don’t get how tech folks can one moment be wringing their hands about the effects of “AI” on education, the insecurity of “prompting”, and job losses and then the next be writing about the best way to integrate an LLM into your workflow or SaaS without even a hint of cognitive dissonance

Like, what sort of flat-minded disassociation do you need to be suffering from to so completely avoid dissonance or at least a cursory double bind? WTF?

If I have advice to GenZ, it's to not rely on social network and make use of email. Both in publishing it, and sending to.

I recently connected with someone of immense reputation, just by looking at their blog About Me page. They got back to me in an hour. Do not avoid this medium. Publish yours.

This is not a joke. It’s a look at the future.

#Capitalism #Enshittification

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capitalism.

Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion"

Quotes:
"Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down."

"The problem isn’t just laziness. It’s degradation. Engineers stop exploring. Stop improving. Stop caring. One more layer of abstraction. One more lazy fetch call inside a render loop. Eventually, you’re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays."

"At that point, you’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."

"But even if you're just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity."

https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/