That was a great read, with a solid ending.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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I’m not sure this is the right community for this, but it was a good read.
yeah i don’t think there is a good community on lemmy for ai related discussions, anything that breaks out of this community gets down voted heavily
Are you the author? I’m a senior software developer but was just let go at work, primarily because of increasing friction around AI. I’m sitting here drinking my coffee and thinking about stuff and that last paragraph with the quip from the mercenary/artist friend is especially good!
nah sorry just saw it on hackernews, i think as time goes on and even open source models reach claude levels it almost feels inevitable that most code will start getting written with assistance from ai
Good blog post.
I couldn't think of a clever response to that. I still can't.
I think it's central to the issue they're talking about. There's demand for quick, cheap stuff. There's also demand for quality stuff. But they're not the same.
I mean, I'm sometimes sad nothing lasts anymore. Or means anything. We buy clothes, appliances, software, phones... just to throw it out a year later. Same with AI. We could do intricate art. Commission someone to draw our company logo or come up with a good advertisement video. But why? Everyone has a attention span of 30s these days and pretty much anything will do for Instagram. So rubbish it is. And we're done in 5 minutes.
I think it's more that society doesn't value quality and sophisticated things any more. We rather have plenty cheap and superficial things. And for a lot of applications, it'll do. Same with art, same with some software and webdesign. Also works the same way without AI. The consumer will do the beta test. And any random messenger uses 150 dependencies and Electron, and two Gigabyte of memory. That's hardly artistry either.
Claude Code spam, this is not a local llm
did you read the article?
Did you read what community are you in?
yes
btw nice 0 posts