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  • Oh, one of the few blogs I was following. Sad to see this news.
    by ulimn
  • if they don't want to write anymore, that's okay, they don't owe it to anybody

    but I will disagree with the rationale

    I want enable and empower everyone, even though it includes bad actors, because I know it includes good actors

    I believe that on balance, humans, the world, the future, are all good

    I reject misanthropy and pessimism

    by spongebobstoes
  • > The web is broken. You can keep it.

    I do have to agree, but I have a different reason for writing less.

    I just enjoy doing stuff that ships. That tends to take up a lot of my bandwidth.

    I couldn't care any less about whether or not someone (or something) uses my code (that's why it's MIT-licensed). I'm also not particularly interested in being credited for stuff (as long as I am not the target of a lawyerpult).

    I've enjoyed using an LLM, and plan to do a lot more of it. I even let it write a bunch of stuff. It's maybe not stuff that has my "imprimatur," but that's fine. People seem to understand it better.

    by ChrisMarshallNY
  • Direct link in case it's needed. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/10/08/idle/

    For some reason the first time I tapped the link it didn't go directly to the article, which confused me. Subsequent times it goes straight through.

    by geuis

  •   >  I run into problems, figure out solutions that don't seem to be documented anywhere else, and then I don't post about them.
    I don't understand this. Presumably you've only been able to build software your entire career because, when you hit a wall, usually someone online had too and shared the solution.

    This feels like throwing a sandwich in the trash rather than let a hungry person eat it.

    by gavinray

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