The Better Web / The Human Web / The Living Web

It's been a few days since my article on Claude Code being used to develop various IndieWeb tools, and in that time Aaron Parecki has written a response. I will be candid and admit that I had a bit of a crisis of faith when I was first researching this. I've spent a year and written hundreds of thousands of words on the indie web and the consequences and harms of generative artificial intelligence. I have been advocating for people to create with their own mind and hands, and to fall in love with the work and the messy, human flaws and mistakes that come with it. I thought for a brief moment that this was a turning point, that the stubborn endurance of continuing to push for humanity and handcrafted code and art was circling the drain and that this new frontier was just a new normal we all had to adjust to. Then, of course, I came to my senses. To start, Parecki writes that these services would have been shut down had he not begun using Claude to update them. This is a false…