Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Wrote a bit more about how the *process of making software* is a social activity before it is a technical activity, and AI tools alienating us from that social activity directly undermine our ability to make software.Pavel@spavel.bsky.socialUnderstanding how people work together is hard. Ordering them to use ChatGPT is easy. So managers do the latter, and then express shock when productivity plummets. That's because problem framing is a social task. If you skip it, your solution will be wrong for ever; "build to learn" won't save you.productpicnic.beehiiv.comSkipping alignment leads to zero-impact UXDeliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion. 318538
Yes America is bad @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 08/09/2025This implies that labor is social and not competitive in a capitalist framework, which I hope I don't have to explain how this is naive to the point of delusion. 100
