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2026-10-17 09:51 UTC

RE: https://social.luca.run/@luca/117455226271149354 Single Use Software is a great phrase and way to think about this! Some other alternatives I'd like to offer: It's the NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here) gone hyperviral & mainstream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here It's also the Lisp Curse supercharged (which equally applies to Forth, IMO), i.e. the disconnect between extreme expressive power, coupled with lacking skills/talent/constraint, turns problems that are mainly technical into social problems: https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html And finally, to paraphrase the great Alan Perlis: "An AI/LLM/Agentic programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing." (May we add: "...including social/environmental costs". Also, not even sure about the "value" part, since the overall direction is towards 100% delegation...) #AI #NIH #LLM #Lisp #Forth #Quote

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  • @jack@berlin.social 2026-10-17 10:08

    @toxi@mastodon.thi.ng Coordinating with other people was always the hard part of open source software. Now that so many people feel that agents make coding so easy that they don’t need to collaborate with anyone, they are skipping that hard part. The long term effect is social atomization in yet another domain ☹️

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