Wow, Lobsters removed my most recent post (https://lobste.rs/s/dpjkzz/do_web_components_have_future_if_nobody_is) because "Article is about using LLMs". I even used the "AI tooling" tag. I guess Lobsters is no longer a place where you can talk about the way ~90% of people are coding these days? 🫤
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@nolan "~90% of people" - is there any data on this? (seriously question!)
another question i've been pondering recently is what % of that 90% (or whatever) are paying for AI themselves, as opposed to their employer footing the bill
anyway, Lobsters seem to be struggling with moderation for a while, they deleted comments on one of my posts (and that wasn't pro-AI!) 🤷
@db Yeah that tilde was a wild guess on my part. Based on the StackOverflow 2026 survey, looks like the real number is 83%: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data
"Employer footing the bill" is a good question that doesn't get called out enough. I think those of us with unlimited tokens at work probably don't acknowledge enough how this shifts your mindset.
I know we're on opposite sides of this divide, but I'm really not enjoying how the "holy war" feel of all this has deteriorated the conversation. 😞
I swear, these people are going to be left behind the way the anti-JS frameworks folks were. You just cant build modern software like that.
Apparently there is a larger discussion going on on Lobsters about AI/LLMs: https://lobste.rs/s/h0eate/updates_site_guidelines_ai_llm_tags
The people running it now are one big clique and only enforce rules if it's not their besties breaking them. Leave and never return, it's the only sane choice