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  Who's "we", motherfucker? https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/

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  Twocats

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  #LB This is where historical materialism comes in. It isn't particular aspects of software engineering culture that is leading to deskilling, etc, it's the material relations of capitalism that produce that culture. The value of this way of understanding is it avoids the trap of thinking that you can fix the culture without abolishing capitalism itself.

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  I realize I'm in the Emacs era, but Emacs+LaTeX+Zotero with BetterBibtex is just so fantastic.

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  #LB . "In my 30 years as a software engineer I have always seen myself as a craftsman..." I have sympathy for the feelings of programmers, but I think what hasn't been made explicit yet is the fact that what AI is doing to them (and to writers, artists, professors, etc) is what capital has *already done* to other workers. Programmers have only been allowed to feel like craftsmen for the last few decades because capital's attention was elsewhere, ruining other wo...