@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
2026-02-12 13:18 UTC
@dtemme Is it because most of these takes are in bad faith?
Because it’s definitely not in good faith when you ignore negative externalities (climate, etc.), power differential, the abuse required to make the product (model-training sweatshops)…
If anything, I think that one of the crimes here is that we technology people mostly ignored all this when it was in other fields, e.g. fast fashion.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer 2026-02-12 13:19
@dtemme Maybe that’s it. It’s not just that fast fashion, and fast programming, is bad. It’s that no one is arguing fast fashion is actually great and we should be doing way more of it. But for programming, there are so many people saying exactly this.
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@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo 2026-02-12 20:24
@samir @dtemme One of my biggest fears is future fallout from using it as well. On top of the horrific sweatshop issues, the stitches on a fast fashion shirt also decompose rapidly. When it's a glitch in a nav system, a medical system, the ballast moderation of dangerous cargo, who gets held accountable for fixing it, if they even can. It's harrowing.