AI has given people “absolute impunity to ignore reality […] AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources.”

The best code is no code, programming still sucks and always will, and yet, I find myself still searching for the claw, the mark of mastery. Because that mark comes from people who want to reach other people directly. I want to see the claw, because if there is a claw, it means there is a living, breathing lion on the other side of the screen building the software that elevates us and binds us together as a community of software engineers.

The only thing I wish is that they had a default tag or notice that was always produced—“Summarized by AutoPR” or just “#AutoPR” would be enough. People should know when their content is made by bots.

I’m going to take this assertion one step further and make a stronger claim: in fact, the only thing computers can write is poetry. I think this is true for all methods of algorithmic writing, but it’s especially true of text that is generated with language models.