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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It's a shame that I'm writing my next newsletter on the plane after negative six hours of sleep, because the theme of the links is a bombshell: Generative AI is not "the future" of software development, but the last dying gasp of its past. MOAR & FASTER can't shore up the crumbling foundations.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It's anchored on two pieces. I could honestly write 1000+ words about each one. The first one is by @baldurbjarnason.com about the disintegrating hegemony of US technopoly (and the conditions that served as the foundation for the VC-funded SaaS bullshit that funds 6-7 figure programmer salaries)

baldurbjarnason.com

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The second one by Evan Garris describing how those same programmers gave up their only leverage on their employers, by exchanging their relationship with reality (which corporate fiat could not overrule) for a performance of fluency for its own sake. AI code is the apotheosis of this transition.

evangarris.com

The Picturing Relation: Wilfrid Sellars, Agentic AI, and Engineers as a Labor Class -- Evan Garris

Wilfrid Sellars's picturing relation as a foothold for engineers facing agentic AI: a critique of agile and the case for engineers as a labor class.

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