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Seriously, how did the person who wrote this:
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
(www.anildash.com)
also write this?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
(www.anildash.com)
@dtemme I don’t get it either. Major despair.
@dtemme Maybe that’s it. It’s not just that fast fashion, and fast programming, is bad. It’s that no one is arguing fast fashion is actually great and we should be doing way more of it. But for programming, there are so many people saying exactly this.
@dtemme Is it because most of these takes are in bad faith?
Because it’s definitely not in good faith when you ignore negative externalities (climate, etc.), power differential, the abuse required to make the product (model-training sweatshops)…
If anything, I think that one of the crimes here is that we technology people mostly ignored all this when it was in other fields, e.g. fast fashion.
@adrian I think there’s both! (I hope there’s both.)
@sanityinc @lizzy Ron Jeffries is still one of my heroes, indeed. 
@janl I’m learning it for the third or fourth time. Let’s see if it sticks!
It is hard, and I’m sorry.
@romeu Yeah, that’s it, it was an illusion. I can appreciate their past work, their writing, whatever, without putting them on a daïs.
A lesson I will learn over and over again, no doubt!
I’m sorry for your losses too. They’re in our heads, but they’re still real.
@thirstybear Yeah, I am not writing these people off, but I am disappointed.
@RosaCtrl Fuck yeah!
@lizzy There are some good ones. They’re typically the ones who actually ship code!
And then there’s Anil Dash, who up until last year, I worshipped.
I think the thing that makes me saddest about this whole “use an LLM to generate code” thing is that many of my heroes are no longer my heroes.
