So sad that we continue to voluntarily give Microsoft Github this power.

Recently I used it (some free-tier DuckAI model, not Claude) to write a Python script for pasting PNGs into PDFs (complete with Tk interface) while applying a whole bunch of custom transformations. Simple enough, but a total chore with all the back-and-forth of searching for relevant unfamiliar libraries and syntax checking and troubleshooting. Inevitably it would have taken me the whole afternoon by hand. With AI I knocked it out in 25 minutes. That was my epiphany moment.

Since then I’ve noticed a general problem with AI coding. It almost always introduces too much complexity, which I then have to waste time untangling (and often just understanding) before I can proceed. Whereas if I had done it “my way” from the start I might have got there earlier. But I figure this problem is kinda on me.

Is the banner image representative of the anti-work ethos? It seems to be celebrating work (if not equality, which is something else entirely).

I get that there’s a tension here, as expressed in the blurb - you need to work, at least a bit, in order to pay for idleness. But IMO this is contingent, it should not be front and center. What’s important is the value of idleness in a society of abundance where material needs have been met already. That’s my view.