Post #4172483

2026-07-28 19:32 UTC

Those four expressions of valuing one thing over another were driven by a set of experience-driven beliefs about what is expensive to do versus what is cheap to do. Which of those beliefs—like Chesterton's Fence—no longer hold thanks to AI, and how would that change the four value statements? But conversely, what new beliefs about what is expensive and what is cheap should we now incorporate with our experience of AI? And how would we express that with value preferences? (2/2)

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@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com 2026-07-28 20:03

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us None of them no longer hold, but the good news is it doesn’t matter because most software orgs never gave any of them an honest chance anyway.

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@osma@mas.to 2026-07-28 19:36

We now believe in negotiating documents to make our tools follow a plan. This is not easier than collaborating with customers to create working software, but it enables us to find venture funding without having to meet said customer, the latter of which making us uncomfortable. @raganwald@social.bau-ha.us

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@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net 2026-07-28 19:52

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us "No longer hold" supposes that those values were ever universal, when the manifesto itself poses them _as a choice_. What I am seeing, personally and professionally, is institutions reject those positions to varying degrees on the basis of a promise with no consequences behind it.

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