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At the centre Critics of a technology only change anything by offering people a better alternative to move towards, rather than an argument to feel bad about. Holds ADAnil Dash Read this korrent →

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• Similar wording His opinion of AI never changed; the circumstances and the facts did, when agent harnesses and Opus 4.5 made the tools good enough. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording Opinions move by touching things, not by reading about them: nobody learns to drive a race car from a book. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier HanssonAMAdam Mastroianni
• Similar wording The insistence that any education innovation must serve everybody at once and for free is the poison that stops education innovating at all. Holds JLJoe Liemandt
• Similar wording Skepticism about a new technology only works if it is total enough to be turned on itself, which is what forces you to stay curious. Holds MFMartin Fowler
• Similar wording The cancel-culture argument now mostly shields the powerful from criticism rather than protecting the powerless from being silenced. Holds KWKen White
• Similar wording Shaming people out of using a harmful technology does not work, because the companies selling it have already priced the stigma into their plans. Holds ADAnil Dash
• Similar wording People persist with the method they enjoy rather than the one that is supposed to be best, and that is what decides the outcome. Holds LLLuca Lampariello