Ignorance, fear, or are you just following the kid’s trend of anti-ai, pushback against corporate desperation?

It’s not realistic to expect no AI assistance in coding in 2026.

It’s also not a stand-in for a human. There’s a huge field of gray where it’s unclear how much of it was fully vibe coded vs how much is carefully hand reviewed and/or written.

I’ve been a professional developer for decades and I’ve done both. Obviously I’ve hand coded stuff for many years. The fully vibe coded stuff is personal, to test and learn the capabilities of the tech. My professional stuff I watch much more closely, and I’m much more targeted in what I’m having the AI do.

That said, if I were gonna use this I’d actually review the code. I’m not recommending this guy’s stuff, but you can’t rule it out on the basis of ai assistance alone.

It’s not a very solid point. They said they may become necessary at some point, but right now they’re irresponsible.

They’re not ruling it out in the future, but their focus is on today’s problem.

I mean, yeah. They’re the only ones trying to hold out some reasonable constraints.

Yeah, but it might take years for these slop companies to actually collapse under the weight of their own tech debt. Do you know how many quarters that is!

Probably followed AI spouting random bullshit and/or malware.

It doesn’t? I think it does have that risk.

Subservience to the FCC and the administration is the excuse. The real reason is that David Ellison is afraid the dem might win.

The majority owner of CBS is Paramount Global, which itself is controlled by Skydance Media, a company led by David Ellison (son of Larry Ellison), following a significant acquisition of the Redstone family’s stake in mid-2025.

Either that or it’s exactly what it says on the tin. I wonder which is more likely.

Thank you. I was just thinking that someone needs to grab this, and it was going to be a pita if I had to be the one to do it.

(More copies are always welcome.)

And it’s a hell of a brave thing Colbert and crew are doing in speaking out.

They’re patriots at a time when speech isn’t free.

They use PLA in several tea bags and coffee filters now.

… of course I research and avoid those. I’m not super paranoid about plastic, but boiling it and drinking it seems insane.

They can’t vote. They’re either not American or they’re bots.

Is that the one that uses peer to peer tech to share videos?

Yeah, I don’t think that’s how it works. The people who do not have the greed at some point are content.

It’s a mental abnormality that causes some people to act like cancer and consume resources obsessively.

It’s also a consequence of low taxes on capital gains and corporate profits.

When those taxes were higher it made more sense to reinvest the profits back into your own company. You’d build a reputation and a structure that would pay out you and your family for a hundred years.

Now the dream is to build up a company just enough to sell it to some megacorp and cash out asap, with you and your family living off of investment money that only increases over time.

Called what? That you didn’t like their use of emojis?

What does that have to do with this? You didn’t call shit.

Bitwarden disables some features if you self host, even if you pay the $15/year.

We haven’t, really. Our “complete neutrality” is infested with troll farms, where people are employed to make hundreds of accounts to spread propaganda.

I’m thinking the answer is to implement a huge barrier for troll farms, but a small speed bump for real people.

It could be oauth with Steam or your cell provider, where you can make an account if you’ve spent over $250 with them. Actual credit history would work. You can combine these and allow any of them, which might let one person make 3-4 accounts, maybe, but that’s still limited enough to make things difficult for troll farms.

There is an issue where billionaires that want to influence us have absolutely absurd resources, and maybe paying $1000 per account isn’t enough of a barrier for them. But at least it gives us a chance for the bans to stick significantly more than they do now.

It’s just a thing that needs repeated basically constantly for all of us.