We mourn our craft | Read the Tea Leaves
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…
We mourn our craft | Read the Tea Leaves Read the Tea Leaves Software and other dark arts, by Nolan Lawson Home Apps Code Talks About << 15 years of blogging Days of miracle and wonder >> 7 Feb We mourn our craft Posted February 7, 2026 by Nolan Lawson in software engineering . Tagged: AI . 67 Comments I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off of it. I didn’t ask for the role of a programmer to be reduced to that of a glorified TSA agen
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