A small pet peeve of mine is how web architecture has infected the desktop application space, and people are writing apps which have separate back end and front end processes that talk to each other like they’re on separate machines for absolutely no fecking reason

The AI bros and their statistical copy/paste machines are ruining a whole bunch of things I hold dear, such as careful, thoughful, personal software development / art / writing, and now even personal computing hardware.

I've decided they and all their boosters can all feck off. I'm done with the equivocations and explanations and "balanced" pros/cons; seriously, just feck off. Industry is souring the things I care about because they can't be arsed anymore, so I reject industry.

People really need to understand that all the talk of hundreds of billions of AI investment is just marketing froth trying to keep shareholders on board with unrealistic projections that are already hovering, Wile E. Coyote style, having run over the end of a cliff, they just don’t want to raise the “oh no” sign https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/five-months-later-nvidias-100-billion-openai-investment-plan-has-fizzled-out/

Jesus Christ 😱

The other day I received a bug report while in the dentist waiting room. Even though I had no access to the code, based on the description I had a pretty good idea of what the problem was, and could give workaround advice, which turned out to be on the money.

I can only do this because by writing the code, i developed an organic familiarity with its working.

You’ll never get that with vibe coding. Your initial coding might go faster, but everything you do with it afterwards will be slower.