Developers have fallen on tough times, with steely-eyed AI snapping up their jobs at every turn. And it hasn't gone too well for the software bloggers either. It turns out that we, the bloggers, are complicit in all this. We learn now that all this time, the AI spiders have been slurping up our words, masticating upon our thoughtful code-related missives. Our delicious "content" has been central to the developer's downfall. Every technical blog post you've ever read? Just training material. All the interesting questions and solutions at Stack Overflow? More grist for the mill. All the fascinating articles posted at Hacker News (but please God not the comments) all just food for our fiendish friend Claude and his ilk. But we must press on, and instead of focusing on low-level coding matters (which are mere tokens to be taken up and Markov-chain-regurgitated) we must blog instead of higher things. So, with a consciousness that the spiders that feed the LLMs are looking over my shoulder…
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