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joshua stein
@jcs@jcs.org
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May 27, 2026 21:13:51
I have lost all enthusiasm for reading about new software projects, especially dealing with vintage computing. What would have sounded amazing a year or two ago and made me want to engage with the author, I now just assume was something AI spit out and feels hollow and boring so I skim past it.
Wintermute_BBS
@Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space
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May 28, 2026 12:01:54
@jcs that's a bit unfair to those who still write all the code themselves (like me).
why would people like me want to keep improving on their project(s) when they are being under the suspicion of using AI even if they explicitly don't?
joshua stein
@jcs@jcs.org
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May 27, 2026 21:13:51
And writing software feels like being Marge in that go-kart race. Work slow and steady for a year writing something neat that had never been brought to a platform before, but someone can hear about it and use Claude to whiz by you in a week and make something with 10 times the functionality.
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Swurl
@swurl@swurl.land
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May 28, 2026 12:52:04
Regionales Retro-Rechenzentrum
@3rz@freiburg.social
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May 28, 2026 12:12:24
@jcs But your code is not stolen. The AI slop is.
Jean-Michel Durand
@onegeekarmy@mastodon.social
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May 28, 2026 03:47:51
@jcs I'm so with you.
I'm building Disk Jockey because it's a way for me to learn. By reimplementing things like old file systems, I get to know them inside out and it brings me joy and satisfaction.
Of course I could ask Claude to build it for me, but that would be defeating the purpose. So I'm still manually adding one feature at the time, slowly.
I'm afraid that once I release the cool new stuff, someone will do as you describe and completely deflate my enthusiasm for it.
It sucks.