RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/117558987210071026
the spell this out a bit more forcefully: AI tools attempt to achieve lock-in by actively making non-users less productive when forced to engage with AI-derived artefacts
AI producing excessive amounts of code is a self-reinforcing phenomenon wherein you have to write huge diffs to get anything done due to the way the existing code is implemented
you could almost view this as an addiction pathway: the only way to deal with having previously consumed AI output is to consume yet further AI output