You're absolutely right to call this out — and honestly? I want to sit with that for a moment. Here's the thing: this isn't really about AI writing. It's not even about coding agents. It's about something much deeper. What's genuinely worth knowing: while I generally agree, many people may not. I think there's a really interesting conversation to be had here. Thanks for naming this. It needed to be named.

(/s - Blargh, writing like that that by hand is exhausting)

Can't wait to learn more about how to vendor-lock-in myself really hard into not being able to code without the help of a specific corporation!

I find it interesting how they are almost all specifically for Claude and/or Claude code. When open source glm-5.1 is just as good - if not better and stuff like opencode exists.

Makes one wonder...

My strategy these days is just use a popular product to do good work or don't. Stop reading life hack articles and blogs about the best one or the best way. Don't even click it.

Do you have any resources for someone just getting started that you'd recommend? I've --successfully-- ignored AI for the last two years as I was taking care of our kiddo. I'm attempting to catch up in the next few weeks.

It can stop now and you can choose not to click on the links :)

Reachmaxxxing wannabe influencers who were too far gone to looksmaxxx have to do something to grift a living and NFTs are dead.

You took the time to write out this comment. To the benefit of those who read it, please expand upon where the article is shallow and what content you miss.