Bryan Cantrill laments he may have to blog that a computer program is not a person
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-10-03
- Legendary systems engineer and Oxide Computer cofounder Bryan Cantrill quipped that if he ends up having to write a blog post explaining that a computer program is not a person, he'll be very upset—a jab at the industry's tendency to anthropomorphize software (e.g. "AI employees" narratives).
- vivekhaldar reshared it, joking that techies are "rebuilding theology from first principles."
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