I'm still 99% Not On Social Media (and much happier for it), but thought it was worth acknowledging here (as I have already done on my blog) that my opinion on AI coding tools have one a full 180 since I was last posting. When used judiciously and with appropriate safety tooling, they can be an enormously powerful lever. (The valid concerns about intellectual property, capital accumulation, and environmental impact, persist - but I cannot and will no longer say that the tools don't _work_)