> We had the modern Library of Alexandria, and we’re burning it down again right now.

I think the author is assuming that only AI is corrupting the web, whereas the Internet itself was built on broken links and misinformation... search engines/etc. were already introducing noise.

Yeah I’ve not changed my mind. I hate this technology, for the effects it is going to have on society that I’m lucky to be insulated from in a well paying job. But I would hate to be an indie video-game developer, contractor, indie developer even right now and I don’t see it getting better.

I will also add, AI code is ugly, yes including Opus 5.5. And I haven’t seen this improve much, gpt 5.6 to Astra was a big step down in code quality, and Opus 5.5 is a step up from fable, but I feel 5.6 is at the level of Opus 5.5. To this you might see, I only care about functionality of the code, fine, you might only care if the code was making you money, I don’t, I care for how good, nice and well architected it looks and feels, and expert humans are still miles ahead on that.

Snore.