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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got interviewed by LeadDev about why I stopped using AI for coding. Great read with others' perspectives too leaddev.com/ai/meet-the-...

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Meet the developers rejecting AI

A growing number of developers are rejecting AI, even when it costs them clients, job offers, and their careers.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i made a member vid showing off my office (a.k.a. the laundry room) and my current computing hardware youtu.be/7D5SBEFqI3g?...

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Office tour & my computing hardware

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the first week of the humancrafted forum has been really awesome and positive, lots of thoughtful discussion. you can join it here! humancrafted.dev/forum

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

rambling about The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, talking about the Humancrafted forum, and what else I'm reading www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Bf...

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a sanctuary free of AI boosters, the Reverse Centaur's Guide to rambling, & what else I'm reading

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yeah for real, most of the big coding YTers are just AI boosters now lol; maybe there's new space for the AI haters?

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

for sure! I think when the human code review is stopped, all bets are off for the slop tsunami lol. but also, reviewing tons of code generated at LLM-pace is exhausting and very very difficult

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I made a member-only ramble video version about my plan for the next 3 months as well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLhc...

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My plan for Oct - Dec 2026: earnings, burn-rate, my mission, and possible future scenarios

YouTube video by Brett Codes

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote about my plan for the next 3 months, sharing some numbers about going indie and YouTube earnings, as well as what I'm going to focus on brettcodes.com/my-plan-for-...

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My plan for Oct - Dec 2026

The vision and plan for my efforts over the next three months while I try to have a go at it as an indie software developer and content creator.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i am pleased to announce this was my first and last dad joke!

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

wait, you're telling me that RSI might end humanity? sounds a bit dramatic, people just need to get an ergonomic keyboard

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I appreciate the kind words so much! It's such a strange time, so I'm glad to be able to speak up about it. I'll keep rambling until I've got nothing left to say. 🤣

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thanks for sharing this; I suspected it was what was happening but it's sobering to see the sketch of the graph. I noticed starting in late-2025 a drop in YT coding tutorial views and ad rev

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i put on a button up to deliver this message in video form to the big wigs youtu.be/g0jjNoR09Tc

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Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

agree! when a lot of convo online is about software dev going faster, there's been very little said about the challenges and risks; the ai companies & boosters want us to think there's no other option than full agentic (it's in their financial interest), but that's not true, there are options!

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there are plenty more examples in the blog post. i thought this might be useful for engs & eng leaders who are starting to doubt or have already rejected AI

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beware the erosion of team culture and morale.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beware new hires being isolated and told to ask the chatbot.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beware junior engineers being isolated by replacing collaborative human conversations with the chatbot. Onboarding and mentorship are as important as ever. Chatbots aren’t suitable substitutes.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beware feature bloat. People want focused, reliable, fast, stable, and functional software.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beware LLM-generated writing that's used in human communication. It's always excessively verbose and typically useless. Nothing good comes from AI-generated internal communications.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beware building features the team doesn’t understand. When things go wrong and the chatbot can't figure it out, it’s a bad situation.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i reflected on my failings as an engineering leader integrating AI into my team (before i quit it entirely); the result is beware: chronicling over 30 real risks from first-hand experience of using LLMs on a software team brettcodes.com/beware/

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Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team

An extensive list chronicling the risks associated with software development teams leaning hard into AI-generated code and related tooling.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yeah, it really is a bummer. I'm glad there are other like-minded ppl out there, i had no idea other devs were quite going through the same stuff and having similar concerns

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my video about quitting using AI for coding (and everything else) passed 1 million views today, wow! what a milestone. i thought it was just gonna be a throwaway vid before i went back tomaking educational coding screencasts it has clearly resonated w/ a lot of ppl!

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 29/09/2026

I resent the idea I'm supposed to spend my day asking for advice from the system that has decimated the demand for technical writing from people like me and everyone featured here molily.de/web-dev-educ...

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The death of web development education – Rescuing a field from disappearing

Rescuing a field from disappearing

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it took over 100 comments and lots of drama to change a dumb quote by a dingbat on a website for a text editor github.com/neovim/neovi... - like what are the neovim maintainer(s) even doing here

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i was looking up details surrounding the removal of dhh's quote from the neovim website and the maintainer's closing comment has real Hideo Kojima "you will feel ashamed of your words & deeds" vibes lol

justinmk on github writing a comment that says "You all have embarrassed and shamed yourselves."

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

helix has it baked in (if I am understanding what you mean by file view), Space E; space e; space f; space F (I use a mixture of all of those)

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

in 2024 i spent a lot of time reading and practicing political organizing (and in the year before that helping unionize in a tech workplace); i'm ready to put my organizing skills to use

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i've been reading the books: The AI Con & End Times Fascism. doing lots of reading and writing idk what's gonna happen with me but gonna put my heart/soul/mind behind creatively pushing against the bonkers era we are living it

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i was planning to take this week slow as a bit of reset, but i'm too excited and motivated, so i'm jumping right in! yesterday i outlined a book idea i've been chewing on; today i wrote about helix editor because i was excited and drank too much coffee (whoops)

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i quit my job to focus on fighting the harms of LLMs, sharing my love of the craft of programming, & advocating for software for humans by humans

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i'm working on a new essay & script entitled "The Death of Rails, the Birth of Omarchy, & the Rise of Fascism in Open Source" which will be public and my first more edited video essay; so more to come soon!

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i recorded a ramble vid reflecting on 15 years of using Ruby on Rails unknowingly of the morning before before the keynote where DHH announced Rails is dead; my vid would seem weird to publish publicly in the wake of that, so i made it a member-only vid: youtu.be/XCZ_AzKHraE

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Reflections on 15 years of using Ruby on Rails

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there's a really nice little AI-booster-free community sprouting up at humancrafted.dev/forum to talk about the joys of coding by hand & how to navigate this current moment come help make this ad-free discussion-centric hangout zone a wonderful place!

humancrafted.dev

Humancrafted

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

humancrafted.dev

Humancrafted

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i made a member vid talking about stop omarchy, dhh's dingbat keynote, and a look at the various stuff i'm coding and working on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb0v...

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Stop Omarchy, DHH being a dingbat, a Rust HTTP server, & a community for devs rejecting AI

YouTube video by Brett Codes

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the intro to this is hilarious lol!

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

thanks for sharing htis, I've been so confused by the recent nepotism with the funding of it and wondering why an NGO maintaining an arch linux config needs US$20mil+ in funding, it's bizarre and worrisome

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 24/09/2026

Stop Omarchy Omarchy is a political movement disguised as a Linux distro. Over $21 million dollars from powerful men and companies are funding it. stopomarchy.org

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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

yeah! an "impassioned" keynote speech about how rust is unreadable and how we don't need to read the code anymore; a person who through nepotism has raised US$20mil for his arch linux config ngo; the most real certification i could imagine

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the idea of "let me end this keynote presentation by bullying people who make different decisions than me" is very on brand for DHH; I have nothing but disrespect to the guy for so many reasons; he's always been mean/cruel/rude since I started using Rails in 2011

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

at the end of the Rails World keynote speech yesterday, the creator of the Ruby on Rails web framework, DHH, said anyone who rejects AI is a loser lol - which is just a bizarre & cruel note to end a keynote on

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

incredible, thanks for sharing! I will read it

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

well it depends on what you mean by suggestions! there's what's sometimes called "omnicompletion" which is it helps you finish writing a function that it knows exists for the language or your code

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

proud to announce i am officially a loser i suspected it was true but it has now been confirmed

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Brett Makes Games @brettmakesgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Usagi v1.3.3 has been released with a fix for gamepads on web not working and a new `gfx.text_ex` spacing arg; full details at: codeberg.org/brettchalupa... Update with `usagi update` or download the latest executable!

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I see what you mean for sure. I think it doesn't bring it down a notch tho. It ends up being used by people to justify its use by ignoring the harms, irresponsible behavior by the major providers, and not thinking about it holistically. Better to be explicit about it all

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

...that's a major point of my writing—that there's harm to framing it that way and it's not an effective way to criticize AI or to justify the use of it

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