This is a continuation of the previous post, "We mourn our craft" [0] many including me dismissed as critihype. Your reaction to the previous article will predict your response to this one.
I believe holding funerals for a still living craft is a waste of breath. It's a shame current AI discourse is represented mostly by mindless acceptance-trying to equivocate becoming a Q&A tester/manager for a forever intern with an straightforward abstraction layer like the compiler-or these calls to abandon ship and reorient your life away from the entire intellectual pursuit.
I would like to see a reaction not unlike the author's position on AI writing: a rejection of this pull towards mediocrity the LLM embodies, writing perfect masterpieces with obscure tooling, armed with nothing but the reference pages and a meatspace community of peers learning alongside you. Manifesting this idea of "artisan software" beyond even the pre-AI days standards of conduct through discipline and community.
I believe holding funerals for a still living craft is a waste of breath. It's a shame current AI discourse is represented mostly by mindless acceptance-trying to equivocate becoming a Q&A tester/manager for a forever intern with an straightforward abstraction layer like the compiler-or these calls to abandon ship and reorient your life away from the entire intellectual pursuit.
I would like to see a reaction not unlike the author's position on AI writing: a rejection of this pull towards mediocrity the LLM embodies, writing perfect masterpieces with obscure tooling, armed with nothing but the reference pages and a meatspace community of peers learning alongside you. Manifesting this idea of "artisan software" beyond even the pre-AI days standards of conduct through discipline and community.
[0] https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/