Atlassian Rovo is considered utterly dangerous on my team (as we are still encouraged to use it…), the first time I did it erased a whole page - it couldn’t get the most basic instruction correct, would leave out 80% of what I input, respond to corrections with the same problem. It’s just a liability.

Just making the point it’s a bit like someone in traffic complaining about all the other ppl on the road! :)

Cue 3 months to the “I’m having to make some hard decisions” email. Whats the board at Bluesky like?

When faced with the choice of trusting a stranger, you turned it down, then made the decision about the lack of trust in the world?

Trust in strangers has never been easy in the US. If something is to change, it has to start individually.

> Politicisation and intolerance

That the community is still such a place that there pretends there is a separation of “politics” from “non-political” or “objective” things, is itself a political ideology.

I have a strong bias towards the scientific method and empirical evidence, as I think many people share. But I don’t have the luxury of being “non-political” - my life itself is a ball being used for political ends, by the very people that run companies that prone here work for. Politics affect my day to day life as a programmer, as a person, as an employee, as a founder.

Events do not take place on a vacuum, and dissociating them in the name of politeness functionally only benefits the people doing the killing, the surveillance, and the oppression. I do want and am glad for this place as one of thoughtful discourse, but I avoid it for real conversations and connections because of how structurally it supports the now long-ascendant investor class - something fundamentally abhorrent to a hacker ethos to me.

The irony is that since this place started, people calling themselves hackers went from outsiders to now in control of the world. They’re the hegemony they once spent time and mental energy fighting against. One only wishes that the moral clarity when disrupting a system could stay alive when you take the crown.