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by tptacek 252 days ago
I can't get past the framing that "people who like the act and craftsmanship" feel AI is negative, which implicitly defines whatever Mitchell Hashimoto is doing as not craftsmanship, which: ghostty is pure craftsmanship (the only reason anyone would spend months writing a new terminal).

No, I think my response was fair, if worded sharply. I stand by it.
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blibble 252 days ago
> I can't get past the framing that "people who like the act and craftsmanship" feel AI is negative

self evident truths have a habit of doing that

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lowboy 251 days ago
Your response conflates the categories of people and ignores that statements like "people..." can mean "(some|most|all) people..." in casual writing/speech. It is not a fair response.

I agree with your frustration with the framing that _all_ people who like the act and craftsmanship feel AI is negative, and the consequence that if one does like AI, then they must not like the act of craftsmanship. Many such people view it as a tool, Mitchell included.

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tptacek 251 days ago
No, it didn't mean that. It mean what I thought it meant. It was a roundabout way of saying that people who use AI aren't interested in craft. The meaning was plain.
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