Code is a liability, not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. It is a brittle machine that eventually "wears out" and needs a top-to-bottom refactoring to keep being in good working order.

It's code's capabilities that are assets.

«"Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well»

And then came #AI.

@pluralistic nails it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#CodeIsLaw #CS #code

Code is a liability, not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. It is a brittle machine that eventually "wears out" and needs a top-to-bottom refactoring to keep being in good working order.

It's code's capabilities that are assets.

«"Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well»

And then came #AI.

@pluralistic nails it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#CodeIsLaw #CS #code

"En deux semaines, l'Office of Personnel Management (OPM, la DRH du gouvernement fédéral), le département du Trésor (le service compta), la General Services Administration (GSA, qui gère, en gros, le matériel des différentes administrations) passent sous pavillon DOGE."

Concentration des pouvoirs au sein d'un même gestionnaire.

"(...) le paradigme techno-politique a changé : sous le régime néolibéral et technocrate du XXIe siècle, résume Hubert Guillaud (...), "l'accès aux systèmes est devenu la clef du pouvoir". Un pouvoir matérialisé dans des serveurs, des bases de données et des logiciels d'analyse, d'audit et de calcul."

Technofascisme. #CodeIsLaw.