By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/09/2026The devs *want* their code to work, because they care about the users, and you as a user can help other users and the devs by reciprocating that care through conscientious, patient, attentive bug reporting and testing. 1110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/09/2026I think that so much of the outrage about slop code - floods of garbagey pull requests and bug reports - is the result of the collapse of this dynamic. Slop's not merely annoying or time-wasting: it's a betrayal of the love and care that goes into writing and maintaining code for others. 2255
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/09/2026Your cat can scratch any part of its body, but it wants *you* to scratch it, and it will hiss at you and even claw at you if you scratch it the wrong way. 3190
Exatron @exatron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That's one of the reasons I hate AI code. If I'm reading code a human wrote, I can see signs of how that person was thinking- variable name, comments, how things are organized and formatted, etc. AI code doesn't really have that because there's no mind behind it, making the code hard to evaluate. 010
