Post by @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems

@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems

2026-09-24 13:22 UTC

It honestly bewilders me how badly tech has failed to resist the slop machines. Basically everyone else has recognised LLMs for the attack on labour they are and fought back against them, whilst a shocking number of coders and FOSS projects have thrown themselves headfirst into the deskilling machines, all-but forcing the foxes into the henhouse and shouting down anyone who tries to keep them out. When this bubble finally blows, we need to work out just how we got to this point, and how to ensure it never happens again.

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@sansruse@awful.systems 2026-09-24 17:11

maybe a hot take but there’s no fix for this. The ideology built into the american tech industry makes it permanently susceptible to the Next Big Thing regardless of the second order effects or ideological baggage. Coders have been riding high making extremely inflated salaries for the better part of the last 25 years, and they (mostly) all view themselves as unique brain geniuses that don’t need to work in solidarity with others. Just a collection of monads pursuing their rational self interest via computer touching.

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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-09-27 04:35

I think the FOSS angle kinda works just off of the inherently unsustainable economics of the space. Relying on unpaid labor makes the worker protection arguments inherently less valuable because it’s not like this was your livelihood to begin with (ostensibly). Keeping up with the next thing is a pretty clear way to keep a mostly-volunteer workforce interested.

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