The rise of Whatever
The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.
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This whole article is great but the last section resonates with me pretty hard at work rn:
But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless.
At work we're being pushed to use Copilot because "you shouldn't spend your time coding, you should spend it designing" (actual quote) and my guy, I enjoy coding and writing and doing things, not sending it off to the plagiarism-pollution machine