Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H...
by skydhash on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:06AM
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I’m subscribed to a couple of mailing list and follow the archive of a few others. I wonder if the friction associated with the medium is why I haven’t seen those shenanigans?
Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H...
by 2ndorderthought on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:08AM
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I should look into mailing lists. That would be a great filter for the "I need it now at any cost" interactions. Thank you for the indirect advice.
Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H...
by marcosdumay on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:15PM
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I think we are going to see a large movement of designing friction in the next decade.
A lot of the passerbys nowadays feel like trolls. They come in copy pasting chatgpt responses spamming they need help instead of chit chatting asking questions. We fix their problems, they don't trust us or understand at all. Or worse we tell them their situation is unreasonably bad and they should start over, they scream at us about how some unimaginably bad code passes tests and compiles just fine and how we are dumb.
They tell us we don't need to exist anymore in one way or another. They try to show off terrible code we try to offer real suggestions to improve it, they don't care. Then they leave the community once their vibe/agentic coding leaves that part of their code base. Complete waste of time, they learned nothing, contribute nothing, no fun was had, no ah-hahs, just grimey interactions.