Some people genuinely have a problem with it.

But I’m convinced that the majority of it is just: It’s embarrassing (and therefore costs social capital) to defend it.

So therefore: If you attach it to something else you want to attack, you just gave yourself a strategic advantage.

Corrections are the piece that the public sees, but liability has more to do with being able to prove in court that you took reasonable steps to make sure you were providing accurate information.

News outlets are liable for what they publish. LLM vendors should be as well.

.git-blame-ignore-revs

Being a Luddite isn’t going to help anyone.

Not taking a side in this thread, but you might wanna learn more about the Luddites. Their story is very relevant to today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics

“If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.”

When I was a teen or young adult, I had to get into a deeply philosophical mood before I would think to myself “Wow… what are we even doing? Why are we like this?”

Now, I just glance at headlines or business ideas and I’m quickly overcome with revulsion.

I’m not sure if I’ve gotten more critical, or if the world has just devolved so thoroughly.

Soooo, programming?

1. Full English so you understand and trust the output
2. Terse English to increase bandwidth <- you are here
3. A “native language” optimized for LLMs, similar to the language of the whispering earring

A lot of it probably isn’t legal, but who’s gonna prosecute them?

Wow, it sure would suck if someone used Github to copy all of your code with no regard for the licensing and use it to try to disconnect you from the people who use your projects. I can’t imagine what that would feel like.

Whatever specific class I am, my play style is definitely “glass cannon”.

Anthropic, without an ounce of self-awareness: “Hey, just cuz you used AI to change it doesn’t mean you can copy our stuff and use it to compete against us!”

They would rather see zero.

Dan, thank you for this question. It’s really at the heart of the work that I’m trying to do now, which I call thanatocracy. So, it was John Locke who said political power is making laws punishable by death.

And I think anyone who’s studied Marx or studied other political economists will see that the human surplus arises from reducing the value of the workers to zero, as close to slavery as you can get. So, that’s the matter of value theory and political economy. But I think it rings true for most everybody that the boss is trying to reduce wages, the workers trying to increase them.

And the boss, unless he reaches some opposition, will go down to zero. You know, as long as labor is plentiful, as long as a new generation is created, or as long as immigration is possible, slavery is the tendency of capitalism. When I say slavery, I mean reducing the value of the human life to zero, to nothing.

From The Dig: Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh, Feb 17, 2026 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=1000750229034&r=1662

inb4 clean-roomed FOSS Claude Code

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Lmao

Part of the trilogy: Mean Girls, Median Girls, Mode Girls

“Can you do it quicker if we assume it only has to support squares?”

“Yes but I’m not going to assume that”

“Why not?”

“Who has to do the work to support circles when a circle shows up: you or me?”

I have also tried “Okay we save 2 days by avoiding circles, but now we have to spend 1 day adding validation and messaging to make sure everyone knows circles are unsupported. And now, from here until eternity, if we spend just two 30-minute meetings with 8 people to discuss supporting circles, we will have spent more time than just supporting circles from the start.”

Annyone

We are ruinning language for the sake of engagement.