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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

AI's pitch to bosses is that they can fire most of their workers in order to terrorize the remainder into tolerating a working life wherein they are made to mark the AI's homework, at superhuman speed, and to assume the blame when it goes wrong. 12/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

This is obviously a terrible way to write code: pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/m... But it's also obviously going to produce *terrible* code: pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/r... 13/

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Pluralistic: “Humans in the loop” must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

So is vibe code a way of empowering people to have the personal, vernacular tools that they design and adapt as they see fit? 14/

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LastThird @lastthird.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This scenario scares the shit out of me. The hot buzzword in AI coding lately has been "harness engineering", and it's all about techniques to make agentic coding tools rigorous with stuff like this. It's not as fun as just making things, but those who avoid it will make shitty things.

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