"AI is a noise floor": devs mourn losing the kindred-spirit signal in others' work
moultano · x · 2026-10-28
zetalyrae notes that seeing someone build what he'd dreamed of for years used to feel like finding a kindred spirit — a feeling AI has erased, since "I gave creative direction" no longer signals the same kind of person as "I built this." moultano adds that we make things primarily to relate to each other, and AI becomes a noise floor making it harder to know who is on the other side of a work.
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