Clanker: A Word For The Machine

kept by eddie may 28

Armin Ronacher argues for the term "clanker" as a deliberately mechanical, dehumanizing label for LLM-based tools to resist anthropomorphism and keep responsibility clearly on humans.

Building Pi With Pi
LLM-generated slop in issue trackers and code contributions harms open-source maintenance, forcing maintainers to resist local workarounds that undermine global invariants.
also on Earendil, Armin Ronacher, #ai-agents, #software-engineering
I've sold out | Hacker News
Mario Zechner sold his open-source harness Pi to Earendil, a for-profit company, prioritizing family time over community ownership of the project.
also on Earendil, Armin Ronacher, #software-engineering
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding - by Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani argues that while AI agents now write 80% of code for early adopters, this shifts problems to "comprehension debt," where developers understand less of their own codebases.
also on Armin Ronacher, #tech-community, #software-engineering