This is an incredibly good essay by Iris Meredith about the cultures of technology and how LLMs coding tools have cast the conflict of those cultures (honor vs engineering) into active strife, and then subsequently framing *that* in terms of gender
> code agents are the spears that the high and mighty of the tech culture fight with for glory in battle. They're a way for men to assert their masculinity and their skill in producing much new and innovative code, and they demonstrate to the men that use them that they are fighters and effective on the field of combat that is innovation
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Which raises the question: what if the people on the other side of the divide aren't more trusting, less curious, less experienced or otherwise less suited or less capable of making use of the tools? What if they're simply humanities people? Or worse, mechanical engineers?
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Iris@iris_meredith@mastodon.social