The Programmer's Fulcrum: 23 August, 2025
Here we feature the latest Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion "Destroying Autocracy" Post.
Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 22 August 2025 ✦
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Justin Searls writes:
Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It has rendered entire product categories obsolete and upended the job market. With any economic change of this magnitude, there are bound to be winners and losers. So far, it sure looks like full-breadth developers—people with both technical and product capabilities—stand to gain as clear winners.
What makes me so sure? Because over the past few months, the engineers I know with a lick of product or business sense have been absolutely scorching through backlogs at a dizzying pace. It may not map to any particular splashy innovation or announcement, but everyone agrees generative coding tools crossed a significant capability threshold recently.
If you have read our communiques before, you know we are anti-AI (for moral reasons). But, when there is a rare reasoned alternate take we are happy to share it.
Destroying Autocracy – August 21, 2025
Welcome to this week's "Destroying Autocracy". It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it.
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Hamish Campbell writes:
The geek answer (bad faith or blindness): “If only everyone learned to code, then society would be fairer.”
The activist answer: Code is part of the landscape, but culture, governance, and lived practice matter more. We don’t escape domination by teaching more people to type commands, we escape by changing what we do together with the tools.
Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan – it’s been tried, it’s been funded, and yet it hasn’t shifted power one bit. If anything, it’s reinforced the tech priesthood instead of breaking it.
Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan
Remember, as I mentioned in the TechnoAnarchist Manifesto, tech is now the major religion on earth.
As far as what programmers should do, he has:
Activist tech has been stuck in a defensive crouch
