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  Who's "we", motherfucker? https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/

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  Twocats

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  #LB This is where historical materialism comes in. It isn't particular aspects of software engineering culture that is leading to deskilling, etc, it's the material relations of capitalism that produce that culture. The value of this way of understanding is it avoids the trap of thinking that you can fix the culture without abolishing capitalism itself.

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  I wrote an elisp program to run through all my book chapters and compare them against my bibtex bibliography file, and show me a buffer with all my unused references. It's fun! https://codeberg.org/redlibrarian/gists/src/branch/main/unused-citekeys.el

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  #LB . "In my 30 years as a software engineer I have always seen myself as a craftsman..." I have sympathy for the feelings of programmers, but I think what hasn't been made explicit yet is the fact that what AI is doing to them (and to writers, artists, professors, etc) is what capital has *already done* to other workers. Programmers have only been allowed to feel like craftsmen for the last few decades because capital's attention was elsewhere, ruining other wo...