We lost the war on quality

Content notice and disclaimer: This post is about AI. When I say AI, I mean the GenAI/LLM hype which has been going on since late 2022 in the broader public. In this post, I will not further mention all the bad things we all know about AI1. The reason is not that I don't think it's important. The reason is that I think that we all know about this at this point. Some decide to ignore it. I am not ignoring it and I am deeply concerned about it. It's important, but not the subject matter of this post. I promise it'll make sense if you make it to the end. Also, I am only talking about AI in the context of software engineering and computer infrastructure operations. No AI has been used in the writing of this blog post, except the parts where I describe my interactions with an AI. There, obviously, I used AI in some way. But the writing is mine. it's good and I hate it so much That's me, writing to a friend about the experience of having Anthropic's Fable model diagnose my broken NextCloud…