When I learnt that Kodak deleted that Xinjiang photo, I stopped buying their products. Fine to not post initially, but publishing then deleting and apologizing shows weak corporate backbone.
No one is against using AI or coding with agents unless you don't understand what it's doing and you're incapable of reviewing the output. The problem isn't the tool, it's "coders" who unthinkingly trust it without verification.
This is why you don't let Claude handle versioning and the release process. From v0.1.0 to v1.0.0 to v2.0.0, and then suddenly 1.2.0? Semantic versioning isn't quantum mechanics. (Even then, I'll admit it's sometimes hard for me too to decide the right increment when tagging versions. :)
Also, looking at abandoned blogs and old photos of people lying next to their computers from the early 2000s is so interesting. It captures a time when people truly connected with their machines and made them part of their identity.
We have created many innovations to speed up tasks and simplify certain jobs. These improvements are always marketed as ways to create more time for family, leisure, and personal interests. But they didn't actually free up time for these purposes. Instead, the extra time is often filled with even more work.
I learned French because I moved to another country, and I was learning verb conjugations by regularly looking at the (very long) conjugation table. One day I just randomly looked at the table of verb conjugations in my mother tongue, Turkish, and I couldn't believe it, it's many times longer than the one in French! The fact that there are so many things I use in daily life without much effort has shown me how wonderfully the brain works.
Previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28024539