"Asbestos has good and bad things"
"Assault rifles in the hands of ordinary citizens has good and bad things"
"Everyday chemicals in the food supply has good and bad things"
Look, some issues require nuance. Others don't. It's gaslighting to tell activists who consider Big AI to be a net negative for society (by an order of magnitude!) that their position isn't "real-world reflective".
(To be clear, I'm no fan of WordPress either, and its security hassles are a real issue. But some sloppified MegaCorp vibecoded fever dream will never be a suitable replacement, of that I guarantee.)
Yes, I lost a client last year because they wanted to start all new feature work by reaching for Claude first, and I refused to participate so our relationship had to end. Very unfortunate, but I'm feeling pretty confident that the AI bubble is already bursting, and this sort of low-cost YOLO slop phenomenon will end shortly. In fact, I've gotten new work from people whose values are aligned with mine. I'm counting on that trend to accelerate.
Good code will win? What kind of delusion is that? The web has been overrun by low effort React & Tailwind monstrosities, and agenetic services have only accelerated that trend. I don't have any confidence that market forces will somehow corral development into a place where "good code" wins.
Liquid (Ruby) has been a bit of a backwater repo for a long, long time now. I lost confidence in building any of my own websites using it, having forked Jekyll to create Bridgetown which afforded me the opportunity to switch to other template engines (including one I wrote which is a superset of ERB with Liquid-like features called Serbea).
Turning a questionable project into a vibe-coded slop fest doesn't surprise me tbh. Folks, unless you neeeeeeed to use Liquid, uh, don't. (Unless you're using another language port of Liquid, in which case maybe it's still fine.)
> That has strongly disincentivized legitimate contributions from people.
Citation needed. I'm seeing the opposite effect: that embracing AI slop in OSS is turning off human contributors who are aghast at projects not standing firm against the incursion of LLMs…even going so far as to fork projects prior to the introduction of slop. (I'm already using slop-free forked software, and I suspect this trend will grow which is sad but necessary.)
Current, a brand-new handcoded RSS reader for i(Pad)OS/macOS is one of the best apps I've ever used. Seriously. I gladly purchased it and use it every day now (with Feedbin as the backend).
Not only that, many of the apps & services I'm gravitating to are genuinely AI-skeptic either in how they're built or in how they market themselves to the general public. Slop-free is becoming hot stuff, and if you sound silly & AI-pilled you take on a significant amount of heat as you should.
Look, some issues require nuance. Others don't. It's gaslighting to tell activists who consider Big AI to be a net negative for society (by an order of magnitude!) that their position isn't "real-world reflective".
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