I value competence above all else, and bullshitting (e.g. using AI to say you used AI) is the opposite of competence.
I wouldn't claim he's lying because I have no first-hand knowledge to base such a claim on. I just think his whole persona is about selling the idea that "you don't need to look at the code anymore". I would have a hard time calling that a lie because I think he really believes it. It does mean that I think of him as a fool or a pawn, though: a friendly face whose purpose is to give a feeling of safety and human harmlessness to a destructive agenda of machine supremacy.
My moral condemnation for that is as strong as if I thought he was simply lying, and perhaps stronger.
Unhealthy, yes. Well being, not so hot these days. But I could give a damn, cause I'm going to replace Git and Github both and have my name written in the history books.
As Lin-Manuel Hamilton said, "God help and forgive me; I want to build something that's gonna outlive me."
Again just to make the nuance clear: nothing I've built has been destroyed. What makes me red hot angry is the message that there's nothing left to build -- that the world will soon belong to the people who just mindlessly copy (Jarred and his ilk). They have been quite crystal clear in their message to me: not using AI makes me worthless garbage to be taken to curb, a snack for anyone using AI.
You see how many times people can tell YOU that you are worthless garbage before you start thinking, "I'm going to punch back at the people who punch me." 20? 50? 100 times you get punched in the face before you start to consider self-defense? Cause I've read that piss-poor message 50 times: "you will be replaced."
It's not just in the past, and my anger isn't just about what was taken, but the community-destroying use it is being put to: Andrew's job isn't to make a JS runtime, it's to sell the idea that coding is dead.
When he made it his job to sell that narrative, he declared war on me. It should not surprise him or anyone else that I am going to take the war right back to his doorstep.
"An unprofessional embarrassment" is exactly how I feel about Bun.
I don't get mad at people for standing up for their morals, I get mad when they have none. AI is an a-moral tech, and Bun is using it in an a-moral way: for team Bun the ends justify any means.
An early adopter is someone who is first in line to try something new, usually because they're willing to build part of the new thing with their own hands. Just look at what projects are on any of the third-party forges, those are the early adopters of post-github tech.
I would also be one of them, but I'm not actually off Github yet. That's because I haven't quiite finished building the thing I'm going to move to.
Rolling your car off a cliff isn't the same thing. This would be more like you want to drive your Tesla into the jungle so you build a road as you go.
The key problem is not losing the cars but losing the road builders who are now no longer building roads that lead to you, but rather roads that lead away
It's written in Go because they didn't realize it was a dead-end choice. They optimized their own perf reviews instead of the actual long-term health of the ecosystem...
Not very strong thinking. Falls right into every AI fallacy I know of.
The biggest fallacy is that there's no more value to code or engineering, to use your analogy companies are acting like having good strikers is inconsequential and not worth any investment when you can just use the same striker-bot your opponent uses. "Just being average is good enough for us" is not an attitude held by any winning team.
This itself is an outgrowth of the idea that the world is dead, that everything worth doing is already done, and that humans will soon have little real use. I fucking hate the people spreading that ignorant load of horseshit
I also think the path to adoption for CSTML is eased considerably by the fact that most CSTML documents will be produced as parser or WYSIWYG editor output rather than hand-written. And yeah, the whole world of XSLT opens back up again with this tech. I loved the idea behind XSLT. It was a great idea. It created a much richer semantic internet, and then let visual presentation be a concern purely secondary to semantics.
I'm just... Confused at how any of this is good for society. YOU FUCKING KNOW when your fridge is empty.
So OK maybe some corp can reprogram you to not restock on food. CONVINCE ME THAT'S GOOD. Is it not just an attempt to make people worse? Less self-sufficient? More miserable?