They know people spit slop slop slop slop like a thirsty dog. Every public defense is protesting too much, every quiet effort is conscience of guilt. The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.
We each need private vigilance against participating in public harassment campaigns. Is there any reason these people’s behavior changed, or that they were keeping things quiet, besides the fear of dealing with you?
> entire product loudly denigrated because of new tool used
Yeah can’t imagine why they’d remove the ‘come have an argument at me’ label.
I want the bubble to burst so this moral panic will end. Programs can code, now. That’s not going away. Make your peace. We can either leverage this new ability to describe code into existence, and improve all the ways where it demonstrably works okay - or we can pretend that wasn’t the goal of compilers and high-level languages the whole time.
Oh but this new thing is different; yeah it’s always different, that’s what new means. Neural networks sounded great for decades but had a hard time existing. We finally accepted the bitter lesson that power scales better than cleverness - and hey presto, ‘what’s the next symbol?’ is as smart as a junior developer.
If you think these fumbling efforts are the best this tool will ever be, we can still extract useful work from it. It’s already a punchline in videos that build some crazy thing the hard way, then have an LLM effortlessly switch languages for speed. Or fight integration hell on their behalf. We’re not doing anyone favors by pretending the problem is the tech. Or by harassing people who work for free on things you like.
It could set up painlessly and still be a nightmare to own. Printers are just inherently awful devices.