26 replies

1. avrona Mastodon 12 min later

   @zachleat This, my friend, is what I call "ownership".

2. Neil E. Hodges Mastodon 28 min later

   @zachleat It's one reason why I enjoy driving cars with manual transmissions. :3
   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 46 min later

      @tk not as a consumer, but as a builder!

3. seth Bluesky 32 min later

   Crazy that this even needs to be emphasized, but here we are.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 44 min later

      here we are!

4. Marco Hengstenberg Mastodon 32 min later

   @zachleat but why? Whenever I ask senior dev a question i get:“Ask Claude! He can do it.“

   Honestly though: devs who retain their ability to write code without ai will be the ones companies will search for.

   You may quote me on this when the whole ai slop/hallucination/accidents ship has sunken.

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 47 min later

      @nice2meatu doesn’t matter how you create/generate the code, you’re still responsible for it!

5. Chris Moody Bluesky 35 min later

   There’s not a soul at OpenAI or Anthropic who’s ever admired a dovetail.

6. Konnor Rogers Bluesky 43 min later

   one might argue its more important now than ever

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 45 min later

      exactly!

      1. Konnor Rogers Bluesky 1 hr later

         I talked with someone earlier, and basically my theory is that dev ops, SREs, security folks, and anyone needing to do root cause analysis of bugs will have their work cut out for them when the bill becomes due...

7. Patrick Fulton Mastodon 47 min later

   @zachleat You're absolutely right! I'll make that change now!

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 48 min later

      @patrickfulton *eyes narrow*

8. Tom MacWright Bluesky 54 min later

   i hope this is not subtweeting my prs 😂

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

      oh my god never, I really appreciate your excellent help!

9. Paul Melero Bluesky 1 hr later

   Yes, more than ever. Dumb black boxes are not making us smarter...

10. George Rodier Bluesky 3 hr later

    This is the hill I die on

11. Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson Mastodon 8 hr later

    @zachleat one of my lifelong frustrations has been how little most people seem to care about how anything they use on the regular actually works. By and large, zero interest from the average person in understanding what they use at even a high level.

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

       @josh people care when it breaks 😅

       1. Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson Mastodon 17 hr later

          @zachleat a thing often avoided by... knowing how things work 😭

          1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

             @josh yes 😅

12. fry69 Bluesky 9 hr later

    The contrarian standpoint here would be "evolution":

    The biological process really does not care how things get build or how things work and still is able to produce most interesting species.

    Of course this comes at the price of constant churn (hunting and eating each other) and is extremely slow.

    1. fry69 Bluesky 9 hr later

       I don't think we have reached that stage yet with how be produce software, so it we should still care a lot how things get built and work.

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14. ayo Mastodon June 5, 2026

    @zachleat Happy to be the stubborn “pro-code” guy at work. Senior leadership now acknowledges we need more of that.

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon June 5, 2026

       @ayo the quality pendulum will swing back