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Software engineer, nerd, occasional streamer. Former CTO of SKUTOPIA antman-does-software.com www.twitch.tv/antmancodes www.democratic-economy.org

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026
"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/
A medieval one-man band standing on a crate; his head has been replaced with the head of a killer robot. Observing him are a cluster of critics, who are variously gesticulating wildly, peering disapprovingly, looking on in amusement, etc. The background is a phantasmagoric cloudscape.
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Based on people's reactions to my last article, I figured Total Skill Collapse was a concept worth expanding on: www.democratic-economy.org/total-skill-...
Excerpt from article: "Platforms need to protect creators of high quality content, but they're in an arms race with AI-wielding creators and the generative AI providers themselves. This arms race means platforms cannot easily disincentivize AI-generated content without undermining incentives for human creators. In some cases they're internally conflicted, because they are a generative AI provider and a social media platform — e.g. YouTube and Google being the same corporation, or Meta being a dumpster fire.
Then there's the fact that users people don't actually enjoy AI generated content as much nor for as long. In a recent survey conducted by writing platform Ellipsus, 97.5% of 4,449 of respondents stated that they actively avoid content they suspect is AI generated. Only 0.1%, six respondents out of 4,449, stated that it was unimportant to them whether or not a piece of writing was authored by a human. There is no organic demand for AI generated content, instead, generated content acts as, at best, a kind of imperfect substitute.
In fact I think its more accurate to categorize AI generated content as a type of forgery. AI-plagiarists rely on people being unable to identify their content as AI generated. A video of a kid playing an incredible drum solo is entertaining if it's genuine, but infuriating if it's AI generated. Sharing the former can be a platonic love language between friends, but sharing the latter is just embarrassing. Regardless, the person that prompted and uploaded the generated video is rewarded for tricking some people, and pissing off others. If AI generated content’s value is predicated on not being identified as AI generated but passing as human created, then what else can we call it except a forgery?"
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It's the only way things will get better: www.democratic-economy.org/stop-enrichi...
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Stop Enriching The Investor Class
The fact is that excessive wealth is inflationary. The more the wealthy consolidate and accumulate wealth, the more expensive everything becomes while simultaneously rendering us less able to afford i...
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I don't know why I was surprised by the anger I received for this article, but it was more than I was expecting 😅 antman-does-software.com/i-will-never...
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 01/03/2026
Software is not a commodity, although some are closer or farther. To see why, imagine me forcing you to swap out your email client, or your IDE, or your spreadsheet or docs app, and tell me you won't care at all. UX isn't fungible, even if you argue "features" are.
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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 08/03/2026
an LLM is a compiler in the same way that a slot machine is an ATM
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The Resolution Foundation’s “Unsung Britain” is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...
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The Resolution Foundation’s “Unsung Britain” is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction
The Resolution Foundation (RF) sent me a very breathy press release / email this morning, promoting this: As they say: The 13 million working-age families across the poorer half of the country are ...
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I started out writing a lament for the downfall of software and accidentally wrote an amateur economic treatise outlining a new economic paradigm that could maybe, potentially, sort of uh… save the world? 😅 I'm probably wrong, I don't know what I'm doing! www.democratic-economy.org/software-nev...
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Software Never Needed to Eat the World
— How a Democratic Economy might dislodge society from the belly of the beast I cannot continue silently playing along with my role in perpetuating the tireless march of capitalism as it devours the ...
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
BlueSky: Platform primarily consisting of Dan Abramov posts about BlueSky 😅 ...yeah I really need to find more people to follow
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The #rust compiler isn't a compiler so much as it's 6 guys with baseball bats beating you until you admit you're a terrible programmer.
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Last week on stream, I built this cool TalonVoice extension that let's you click anywhere by saying three words: github.com/Antman261/ta...
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GitHub - Antman261/talon-matrix-mouse
Contribute to Antman261/talon-matrix-mouse development by creating an account on GitHub.
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AntmanCodes @antman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Been a long while since I wrote an article — getting back into it with a short and sweet one on software architecture: antman-does-software.com/coupling
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Coupling
Coupling is not intrinsically bad. Too little coupling makes systems brittle - changes have to be repeated in multiple places, system behaviour grows increasingly inconsistent, and finding 100% of the code that needs to be updated as part of a change...
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 26/08/2025
Hey Cat mentioned one of my favorite new concepts I learned from her while listening to a podcast! So I’m gonna bring up another really brilliant thing from that podcast. Let’s chat about pluralistic ignorance and what developer experience people should know about it! 🧵
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