Post #1301904
2026-02-24 16:57 UTC
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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-02-24 17:29
All of your interaction with technology is mediated by other technology. We all understand that when we say 'I went on the Internet' we're not picturing a person, with no technological assistance whatsoever, inducing current into a wire in encoded pulses according to IEEE 802.3 and scratching the resulting HTML in the dirt with a stick. So, when someone comes along and says 'Well, actually, you didn't do anything because YOUR BROWSER went on the Internet.' it isn't actually describing a difference. Here, the comment isn't making any argument on why this differentiation matters. It's just changing the framing to bait anti-AI engagement. They likely also used other technology, like an IDE, syntax highlighting, auto completion, a linter, git, a programming language that they didn't invent themselves, libraries made by others... etc. Implying 'if they use x tool' then they didn't build it is pointless gatekeeping that doesn't add anything to the discussion except create an on-ramp for more anti-ai bot content.