I'm still going to write code to solve problems I care about but I need to rethink licensing and distribution. Making my code public may actively harm me - hosting costs, time & effort defending against AI scrapers, attribution laundering, plagiarism, all devaluing the skill I use to put food on my table. Plus the morale damage that comes from knowing that work I put care and effort into is being ground into a barely recognizable paste to fund psychofuckwit nazi oligarchs that deluded themselves into believing a box of anxious electrified sand is a god.

If someone else was _just_ making money off my work it wouldn't be nearly as bad. But no, it has to be shoved into the LLM blender and extruded as "AI search results" that actively makes everyone else stupider, prevents people from finding canonical and trustworthy sources of information, actively prevents people from finding experts or recognizing expertise. That high velocity StupidityAsAService is already infecting every piece of computational technology that touches the internet. Code is churned out faster and faster, quality is plummeting in free fall, and every organization that dove headfirst into the empty pool that is AI is sweating bullets that their end of the pool will start filling up before they faceplant into the concrete.

I swear, computer programmers are some of the most gullible, delusional, arrogant, and just plain stupid people on the planet. And we're stuck with them shitting up everything they touch.

@olivia ok, let's see if i can explain this succinctly.

If you heat up a piece of ceramic pottery with a layer oxidized glaze (or copper) on its surface, and while it's still red hot, you bury in a combustible material (in this case, sawdust), and restrict the supply of oxygen, the sawdust breaks down from the heat, and the carbon atoms in it become desperate for the oxygen that they can't get because of the lack of air supply.

So, they start pulling oxygen from wherever they can, including from the surface of the pottery. So, the copper oxides end up with their oxygen atoms stripped away, leaving only metallic copper behind. This is called reduction and it's the opposite of oxidation.

This same basic reaction is used in gas-fired kilns if you want a reducing atmosphere. Once everything is extremely hot, the air vents are partially closed, but you keep pumping natural gas into the kiln. When the gas hits the hot pottery, it starts ripping oxygen away from the molten glaze. This is done to get the beautiful colors that are only possible in a reduction atmosphere