An Uncharitable Taxonomy of the AI Discourse
The article discusses various perspectives on the use of AI in coding and software development. It critiques different groups, including those who reject AI, those who misuse it, and those who responsibly integrate it into their work. Ultimately, it emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to AI as a tool in programming.
- ▪Some developers believe that isolating contributors who have worked with AI will be effective, but this approach is seen as flawed.
- ▪There are concerns about the quality of code produced by those who rely heavily on AI tools without proper understanding.
- ▪Utilitarian approaches to AI in coding emphasize accountability and quality over the method of code generation.
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An Uncharitable Taxonomy of the AI Discourse 2026-04-17 The Never Clanker1# Any project who does not lynch any contributor who ever once touched an LLM is slop. They seem to think resisting AI by just isolating everyone who talks about it2 is going to work. I don’t think these people are going to be very happy going forward–you have developers like Torvalds and Bellard testing out the models and finding the large ones to be good enough at low level work to admit they are useful sometimes. The amount of software that is going to have no interaction with anyone who interacted with Claude is asymptotically zero. That position is a house on a broken foundation that is sinking in to the swamp. I see people call them Luddites or Neo-Luddites.
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