It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

People Who Love Corporate BS Are Bad at Their Jobs, New Cornell Research Confirms
Ever had to work with someone who spewed corporate bullshit all day long, yup, that person. Science proved what we all knew all along: they are bad at practical decision making and analytical thinking. Good at corporate BS, bad at actual work.
No wonder I have a hard time dealing with those. Analytical thinking is basically what my brain was created to do.

Here goes the full article: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/people-who-love-corporate-bs-are-bad-at-their-jobs-new-cornell-research-confirms/91314405

Final report on last year's Iberian blackout has been released, including this very interesting diagram showing the contributing factors

https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-container/clean-documents/Publications/2025/iberian-blackout/Final%20Report%20on%20the%20Grid%20Incident%20in%20Spain%20and%20Portugal%20on%2028%20April%202025.pdf

There's a post goin' around about how Mastodon is an echo chamber that needs to let in more representation of AI voices instead of shitting on them.

Okay. So? Every social network on the planet is an echo chamber, of which at least two are right-wing echo chamber nazi bars, and every media outlet out there is beating themselves off to every fucking machine learning advancement/product there is. No matter how shitty it is, or how unethical its resource waste is for marginal gains.

You don't like it here? Don't get ass prints on the door on your way out, or in a slightly nicer tone, the Fediverse lets you run your own server and choose who to associate with, so you can, hypothetically create your own sloperator network, and what's more you don't even have to ask an AI to create the software to do so for you,, its already there. So, I don't know what else to say.

Maybe the Fediverse has its problems. Maybe we are an echo chamber. Maybe we can be more inclusive of diverse voices. But I'll also say, that this is the social network I'm most comfortable in, and I don't want to see it change for the worse. AI techbros have enough representation across literally every goddamn form of media and social network out there, so pardon me for saying: fuck off, I don't want it.