we had a meeting at work and they were like "so everyone should kind of follow this dress code, except for Caitlin who dresses fancy and wears whatever she wants". I even asked if I should also follow the dress code and one of my bosses said "ew, no"
November 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
we had a meeting at work and they were like "so everyone should kind of follow this dress code, except for Caitlin who dresses fancy and wears whatever she wants". I even asked if I should also follow the dress code and one of my bosses said "ew, no"
"AI code assistants" are a devastating hammer against labor power in programming. And I keep thinking about my giant pool of open source code, every game I ever made OSSed— code AFAIK no human ever reused, but the AI corps definitely scraped. And I think. Oh. That's *my* code, burning down the world
November 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
"AI code assistants" are a devastating hammer against labor power in programming. And I keep thinking about my giant pool of open source code, every game I ever made OSSed— code AFAIK no human ever reused, but the AI corps definitely scraped. And I think. Oh. That's *my* code, burning down the world
University e-mail is dead because it had no code. It had no honor. And God was watching.
November 12, 2026 at 8:58 PM
University e-mail is dead because it had no code. It had no honor. And God was watching.
the biggest drag on any organization that produces software is code no one understands. you have turned over the manufacture of software to the code no one understands machine. good luck
November 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
the biggest drag on any organization that produces software is code no one understands. you have turned over the manufacture of software to the code no one understands machine. good luck
"no-one has to understand code anymore" not factually true, database georg, who has to make transactions serializable, has to understand 10,000 race conditions
database developers and gamedevs sure do have different opinions about programming, which is funny because both of them are architecturally very similar
"look at me i have a big table of things, several multidimensional indexes, point in time restore from snapshots, and sync across network"
"look at me i have a big table of things, several multidimensional indexes, point in time restore from snapshots, and sync across network"
November 11, 2026 at 2:58 AM
"no-one has to understand code anymore" not factually true, database georg, who has to make transactions serializable, has to understand 10,000 race conditions
If a human didn't write the code then no human understands the code enough to fix it.
It's hard enough debugging another s/w eng's code so that's why it's written by teams who discuss it, document it, and have a code review before it goes into production.
It's hard enough debugging another s/w eng's code so that's why it's written by teams who discuss it, document it, and have a code review before it goes into production.
November 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM
If a human didn't write the code then no human understands the code enough to fix it.
It's hard enough debugging another s/w eng's code so that's why it's written by teams who discuss it, document it, and have a code review before it goes into production.
It's hard enough debugging another s/w eng's code so that's why it's written by teams who discuss it, document it, and have a code review before it goes into production.
My mind went to this first.
Sympathy for the engineers who were instructed by their superiors to churn out code with no care for verification and future support.
Knives out for the rest of the company.
Sympathy for the engineers who were instructed by their superiors to churn out code with no care for verification and future support.
Knives out for the rest of the company.
This incredible and completely unprecedented Microsoft outage is *exactly* what one would predict if large corporate shops were using inappropriate amounts of vibe coding that was accumulating tech debt.
And it works until it doesn't and then it really doesn't.
And it works until it doesn't and then it really doesn't.
November 13, 2026 at 9:48 AM
My mind went to this first.
Sympathy for the engineers who were instructed by their superiors to churn out code with no care for verification and future support.
Knives out for the rest of the company.
Sympathy for the engineers who were instructed by their superiors to churn out code with no care for verification and future support.
Knives out for the rest of the company.
"Writing code is about to need a hall pass"
No, PROMPTING code is about to need a hall pass. People can still freely learn to write code with zero issues.
No, PROMPTING code is about to need a hall pass. People can still freely learn to write code with zero issues.
I think Taylor was fuming over your perfectly reasonable take
November 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
"Writing code is about to need a hall pass"
No, PROMPTING code is about to need a hall pass. People can still freely learn to write code with zero issues.
No, PROMPTING code is about to need a hall pass. People can still freely learn to write code with zero issues.
Now they're trying to push a CAPTCHA where you scan a QR code with your phone, and hell no.
November 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Now they're trying to push a CAPTCHA where you scan a QR code with your phone, and hell no.
No, sharing code with the intent for it to be used in that exact way is different than having code scraped. That seems pretty intuitive to me.
November 9, 2026 at 11:44 PM
No, sharing code with the intent for it to be used in that exact way is different than having code scraped. That seems pretty intuitive to me.
for those of us not using AI for code - whether we're holding the line ethically, feel that it has no place in a healthy creative practice or both - assertions of the form "everyone is doing it!" are very unhelpful.
November 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
for those of us not using AI for code - whether we're holding the line ethically, feel that it has no place in a healthy creative practice or both - assertions of the form "everyone is doing it!" are very unhelpful.
Post a vehicle women actually like.
November 12, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Post a vehicle women actually like.
Oh no, the exact "hostage situation" code my American boss trained us on!
November 13, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Oh no, the exact "hostage situation" code my American boss trained us on!
I’m really surprised there hasn’t been more talk about this…
If you pay a contractor/employee to code and they use AI, you don’t own the code, even if they assign rights to you — b/c there are no rights.
If you vibe code with AI, you don’t own the code.
It’s free for anyone to copy.
#lawsky
If you pay a contractor/employee to code and they use AI, you don’t own the code, even if they assign rights to you — b/c there are no rights.
If you vibe code with AI, you don’t own the code.
It’s free for anyone to copy.
#lawsky
My newest paper explains why the move to AI coding means the end of software copyright as a practical matter, and considers what happens then.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The End of Software Copyright
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The vast majority of coders and software companies today use AI-generated code or employ programmers who do; surveys suggest that nearly 90% of coders ar
papers.ssrn.com
November 11, 2026 at 5:20 AM
I’m really surprised there hasn’t been more talk about this…
If you pay a contractor/employee to code and they use AI, you don’t own the code, even if they assign rights to you — b/c there are no rights.
If you vibe code with AI, you don’t own the code.
It’s free for anyone to copy.
#lawsky
If you pay a contractor/employee to code and they use AI, you don’t own the code, even if they assign rights to you — b/c there are no rights.
If you vibe code with AI, you don’t own the code.
It’s free for anyone to copy.
#lawsky
notice how there's claude code and no money
November 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
notice how there's claude code and no money
apparently valve doesn't require AI disclosures for code which makes it all the more important to mark your game as actually AI free if it is: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-...
November 10, 2026 at 9:08 AM
apparently valve doesn't require AI disclosures for code which makes it all the more important to mark your game as actually AI free if it is: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-...
No code is 100% unbreakable!
November 8, 2026 at 10:09 PM
No code is 100% unbreakable!
There is a 1000% chance the current builds of Unity have been made with snippets of AI code. Same with Unreal. Any game made with these engines is likely “using AI code“ the developers wrote and have no choice in not using.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
November 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
There is a 1000% chance the current builds of Unity have been made with snippets of AI code. Same with Unreal. Any game made with these engines is likely “using AI code“ the developers wrote and have no choice in not using.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
Microsoft: "we've built AI programming 10x more productive than any human, it now writes 90% of our code!"
"did that cause the current outage?"
"no"
"can it fix it?"
"no"
"did that cause the current outage?"
"no"
"can it fix it?"
"no"
November 13, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Microsoft: "we've built AI programming 10x more productive than any human, it now writes 90% of our code!"
"did that cause the current outage?"
"no"
"can it fix it?"
"no"
"did that cause the current outage?"
"no"
"can it fix it?"
"no"
People who have no contact with coders seem to have no idea how much an entire profession transformed in less than a year due to AI. It is so weird to still see comments here that AI hasn’t changed anything or that AI code is bad or that companies are retreating from AI use. Does not match reality.
November 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
People who have no contact with coders seem to have no idea how much an entire profession transformed in less than a year due to AI. It is so weird to still see comments here that AI hasn’t changed anything or that AI code is bad or that companies are retreating from AI use. Does not match reality.
how in the fuck did they throw that thing up so fast? there's no way that's up to code, right
November 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM
how in the fuck did they throw that thing up so fast? there's no way that's up to code, right
No pants at this anchorage either!
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November 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
No pants at this anchorage either!
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The thing about AI generated code is that, by definition, it's code that no one fully understands because it has no motivation behind any hypothetical decisions that would have been made to create it. In other words: it's legacy code.
AI is a legacy code generator, truly an Eldritch nightmare.
AI is a legacy code generator, truly an Eldritch nightmare.
November 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The thing about AI generated code is that, by definition, it's code that no one fully understands because it has no motivation behind any hypothetical decisions that would have been made to create it. In other words: it's legacy code.
AI is a legacy code generator, truly an Eldritch nightmare.
AI is a legacy code generator, truly an Eldritch nightmare.
-Loads your source code- ... I have no idea what I'm doing here. -Exits source code without touching anything- — it's all spaghetti! and some of it's even saucy alterspring.org/@Xkeeper/a/1...
X answered: -Loads your source code- ... I have no idea what I'm doing here. -Exits source code without touching anything-
it's all spaghetti! and some of it's even saucy
alterspring.org
November 12, 2026 at 4:21 AM
-Loads your source code- ... I have no idea what I'm doing here. -Exits source code without touching anything- — it's all spaghetti! and some of it's even saucy alterspring.org/@Xkeeper/a/1...
The real issue is her strawman of "you'll need a hallpass to code"
If you can't code without relying on LLMs then you have no business coding period.
If you can't code without relying on LLMs then you have no business coding period.
November 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The real issue is her strawman of "you'll need a hallpass to code"
If you can't code without relying on LLMs then you have no business coding period.
If you can't code without relying on LLMs then you have no business coding period.