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.

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> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

Writers: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Artists: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Developers: Wheeeeeeeeee!

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

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Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/

I have spent my career leaning on Apple's excellent design chops when building my own apps.

Now they've broken the design language of their operating systems so badly that it's not possible to build excellent, bug free user experiences.

I've lost a north star here, and it's heartbreaking because there's no real way for them to turn this around for a very long time.