Decentering & Rejecting Faulty Tech Narratives

I saw this in the opening of an article:

Every dev’s had that moment when Copilot confidently suggests a chunk of code that looks perfect until it absolutely detonates your build.

And this was in a critical piece! I was floored. Why are we centering the slop machines like this? Thousands upon thousands of developers are rightly rejecting these services and not using them at all. I’ve never had that moment, as the article suggests, because I’ve never used Copilot.

One of the ways we fight back against the prompt fondlers is we don’t even acknowledge their talking points. We’ll never win the war if they set the terms of engagement. Go out of your way to diminish and scoff at every attempt to make anything about this appear inevitable. Because the truth is the world can simply turn the Torment Nexus off, unplug the cable, and never think about it again. It really is that simple.