Un-Racing Issues

I just landed a PR that fixed a nasty data race in Quamina. Which shouldn’t have been technically challenging, but I took side-trips into Erlang, unit test footguns, whether or not I should go on accepting LLM-generated PRs, and programming while aging. Let’s address that last issue first. “No” on clanker PRs In late 2026 we know that: Claude and its competitors can write perfectly decent code, particularly where the task at hand can be narrowly focused. They’re also good-to-excellent at detecting vulnerabilities. The underlying GenAI technology has serious negative externalities in (at least) the domains of environmental impact and intellectual property. Using this technology might enrich and empower people about whom I feel contempt and fear. The vast majority of people whom I care about and respect are experiencing real unhappiness about the GenAI big picture. I’ve never personally put clankers seriously to work and for now I’ll continue not to. I have been accepting…