Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early ethos that programming is fine craftsmanship and quality is key. We've been fighting the tendency toward "good enough" since decades before ChatGPT.
It's been a losing battle.
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Tech entrepreneurs aren't rewarded for _good_ tech, they're rewarded for tech that creates the biggest splash, "disrupts" the most, or extracts the most money. None of these have anything to do with quality or getting details right.