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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 01:21:31 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   It's demotivating to think that:

   - LLMs aren't good at producing original / novel work
   - You still need experts to advance that stuff
   - It will always be slower to move without using LLMs
   - Once an innovation is done though, an innovation can always be scooped up by the LLM users
   - "Bro why are you doing all this manually, I just vibe coded that in a weekend"

   Will it always be this way? It's depressing in the meanwhile, at least.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 01:21:29 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • The Spritely Institute

     In a sense, the decision is somewhat made for us in that we're developing next-generation stuff that LLMs don't know how to auto-code at @spritely. We are working on core infrastructure that needs to be carefully thought about and written. LLMs introduce a lot of errors and aren't good at doing this kind of work on their own.

     And the goal was always that our work is there to be lifted from, to spread outward, the way people have long drawn from the well of the MIT / Stanford research labs in CS for decades, but for decentralized networking today

     But doing it now, in this way, in this environment, it's just really depressing and demotivating.

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     Wouter Lindenhof (devwouter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 01:22:17 JST Wouter Lindenhof

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     @cwebber

     “Code/Software has no value since it can be duplicated at no cost”

     The first time I heard this was 20 years ago and this has always been true.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 01:22:17 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Wouter Lindenhof

     @DevWouter But it has tons of value! It's a non-rivalrous good. And that's GREAT in many ways. I am all for code being a non-rivalrous good.

     But I don't feel the situation here is the same as it's been for the last 20 years. I don't feel the same way I've felt about it for the last 20 years.

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     Jorge Candeias (jorgecandeias@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 01:27:27 JST Jorge Candeias

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     • The Spritely Institute

     @cwebber @spritely We need you guys.

     The thing that scares me the most is that in 10 years time there'll be no new people able to code new stuff, to innovate.

     And *that* is the main reason why we absolutely need you guys. Regardless of how demotivating it may seem right now.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 01:27:46 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Jorge Candeias
     • The Spritely Institute

     @jorgecandeias @spritely 💜