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There’s a similar divide in the woodworking community between people that use CNC and the like to mill and shape wood vs those that use hand and power tools.

Isn't the question really about what you can get paid for, have as your job?

People want to keep doing what they enjoy as their fulltime profession, making a (good) living out of it. Perfectly understandable. But neither AI, powertools or image generation is preventing someone from doing craft coding, hand woodworking or drawing/painting in their spare time and enjoying it.

I love drawing but since it went out of business as a viable career long before I was born I have never felt the grief of losing it. With craft coding we happen to exist at the point in time where it suddenly gets significantly de-crafted.


I assume they’ll be in Airplane mode?


iOS 27 will add Shuttle Mode


Who’s going to be the system that will fill the vacuum when the judge tells them to do it anyway and it breaks along the way?


Mmm I really think my work day has enough pipe dreams already


How is this relevant to the app?


It’s relevant because it answers the “headline” question of why the market is charging for/gatekeeping free software. The answer is obviously because thats what capitalism incentivizes.


They either exercise intellectual curiosity through Google and YouTube, or they wait until someone decides it’s worth making a commercial offering.


Social media algorithm overload


thank you


lol any answer to “do we use your data” that isn’t “no” is a yes


What’s processing the mail?


The use of opengraph doesn’t change the usage rights on the content that the opengraph tag refers to


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