A human in control. In #curl development.
There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the "vibe coders" who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at the source, while on the other side of the field there are people who are … Continue reading A human in control →
"libcurl in the real world" with Dan Fandrich. The first recording from #curl up 2026 is here.
Dan Fandrich researched how Open Source applications are using the libcurl API. Then told us about it.
The slides: https://telarity.com/~dan/personal/libcurl%20in%20the%20real%20world.pdf
"State actors, sleeper agents and plain bugs. #curl #security matters"
Here's my slideset from earlier today.
https://daniel.haxx.se/media/State%20actors,%20sleeper%20agents%20and%20plain%20bugs.pdf
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.
Every word of this
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
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