AI enshittification, and caring

Fremantle2026 August 21 (Friday), 8:00AM· AI · Paul Cantrell, 21 Aug 2026, 05:44: contrary to popular belief, developers actually care quite a lot about the people who use our software and we derive a sense of purpose and meaning from doing what we believe to be good work; the current environment undermines that, not just LLMs but LLMs as part of a broader vortex of enshittification, and our world is effectively saying “everything you cared about doesn't matter, you can't hope to fight to make it matter, and you are stupid for caring” A good thread about what LLMs are doing to software development. It definitely does feel like people are caring less these days. ← PreviousNext → My main RSS news feed: https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss(or Wikimedia.rss, Fremantle.rss, OpenStreetMap.rss, etc. for topic feeds). Email me at sam samwilson.id.au or leave a comment below…