This kind of fictionalized near-scifi manages to get the point across so well. I felt echoes of Ted Chiang's short stories. The format with quote-formatted text not being quotes is annoying to me though :)
I have to say this story, written with Claude, does not feel like a mature writer’s story. It is a bit too uneventful in its storytelling and a bit lacking in literary polish. More importantly, this could have been a much more humorous story given its setup. But I like it because it depicts a more nuanced future where software is generated and, in some sense, essentially free. It’s neither utopia nor Mad Max apocalypse. Let’s hope and try to make it that way.
Wonderful! As a game developer with a deep interest in coding agents but a lot of conflicting thoughts about it, I needed this
This was excellent, and rang very true to this erstwhile software developer. Bravo!
Oh cool, the ai boosters are posting dumb fan fiction again
Propaganda was never easier than these days, just prompt the Artificial Idiot and have them Natural ones lap up synthetic narratives for breakfast.
For unfaithful flock won’t fill AI clergy’s pockets with billions of dollars.
This kind of fictionalized near-scifi manages to get the point across so well. I felt echoes of Ted Chiang's short stories. The format with quote-formatted text not being quotes is annoying to me though :)
I have to say this story, written with Claude, does not feel like a mature writer’s story. It is a bit too uneventful in its storytelling and a bit lacking in literary polish. More importantly, this could have been a much more humorous story given its setup. But I like it because it depicts a more nuanced future where software is generated and, in some sense, essentially free. It’s neither utopia nor Mad Max apocalypse. Let’s hope and try to make it that way.
BTW, if you want, you can intentionally reduce the LLM tone by just forbid it say certain words or patterns. See this NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/podcasts/something-big-is-happening-ai-rocks-the-romance-novel-industry-one-good-thing.html