Post by @camertron@ruby.social

2026-07-15 20:50 UTC

"LLMs have democratized software development!" No, LLMs have democratized dependency. The frontier labs are using the same playbook as drug dealers. Give everyone cheap access to a replacement brain until individuals, businesses, and entire industries are dependent on it for their very existence, then jack up the prices and watch society burn.

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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social 2026-07-15 23:06

@camertron@ruby.social Absolutely. Democratized software development is being able to develop software using good, reliable tools for roughly $0. As I have for a long, long time. Meanwhile, devs are having to pay $$$, with costs now skyrocketing, to "build" software completely beholden to a handful of slop machines. Makes zero sense. (And no, "my employer pays for the tokens" is not an excuse!)

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@deniz@misskey.sukonbu.party 2026-07-16 09:27

@camertron@ruby.social i can assure you it is very much the other way around: https://misskey.sukonbu.party/notes/aoomhc35jcdx00nk

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@floby@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 09:30

@camertron@ruby.social I hate it when these people say democratise instead of popularised. Kratos is power, the people have not seized power of the programming activity, quite the opposite.

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@riley@toot.cat 2026-07-16 10:00

@camertron@ruby.social Y'know, if a space lizard army was prepping the Earth for an invasion, this might be one of the steps. And goes so well with the dino-friendly terraforming effort, too!

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@doomangel@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 10:03

@camertron@ruby.social pues instalar IA en local es la alternativa.

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