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.

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116225009200255920

My unscientific, inexpert, underinformed gut analysis here is that the US has been in recession in any meaningful sense for about a year now, but there’s a few dozen billionaires playing ping-pong with each other’s money and the way we measure growth mistakes that for value creation.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116130138605094270

Today the EU Parliament said NO. ❌

Voluntary scanning by Outlook, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc. might come to an end on April 6 in the EU. Keep pushing everyone! 👏🥳

Rather than empowering users to access the services they need in a secure and safe way, the #eIDWallet risks becoming a tool of surveillance and control.

EDRi, @epicenter_works and other digital rights and consumer protection organisations across Europe wrote to the @EUCommission Commission to urge them to amend their plan and ensure that the rights of users are properly safeguarded.

Read the open letter ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eid-wallet-still-doesnt-deserve-your-full-trust/

💙 @HomoDigitalisGR, @CCC, @digiges, @vrijschrift, @apti

RE: https://loops.video/v/e5aXYWtLeZ

Shoutout to @nlnet for funding Augmented Reality filters that you only see on proprietary platforms like Snapchat and Instagram.

They are quite complex and require advanced knowledge of platform APIs, but that never stopped me from learning, researching and experimenting until I got it right.

Powerful and popular features shouldn't be proprietary.

They should belong to the people. Boost if you agree 👍

#Loops