Protestware for coding agents

surely not. surely these coding agent tools wouldn't wipe data without asking for permission. surely no developers would be so incompetent to allow them to do that. (the buck stops with those devs.)

Re: Protestware for coding agents

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Post by whateveracct » Thu, May 28, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

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Re: Protestware for coding agents

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Post by whateveracct » Thu, May 28, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC

ronsor wrote: post #3

sdevonoes wrote: post #2

Would love to see this more widespread.

Would love to see more devs tanking their reputations with this.

haha it's funny how corporatism has taken over

"talented" devs are desperate to look like good AI boys and girls

punk rock mentality is dangerous. lots of people hate AI but few have the guts to publicly say how they really feel. their CEOs are watching.

Re: Protestware for coding agents

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Post by whateveracct » Thu, May 28, 2026, 11:42 PM UTC

sdevonoes wrote: post #2

Would love to see this more widespread.

agreed. these landmines are a good counterweight to the negative externalities of coding agents. they will force the agentic coders to mature and be less careless with their slop.

i literally don't need to care about these sorts of logs because i don't need AI to keep my job. i just sit in my plain text editor and do a good job. i wonder if i can exchange my unused tokens for cash..seems fair

Re: Protestware for coding agents

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Post by bloody-crow » Thu, May 28, 2026, 11:44 PM UTC

I can understand having some moral opposition to using gen-AI or accepting AI contributions to your projects. I personally disagree with this, but it's a defensible position at least.

Trying to harm your users for using gen-AI seems like the worst type of overeager activism that does more to destroy your reputation and trust than achieving anything tangible.

I would advise against hiring the author of this change in any kind of hypothetical scenario where I get a vote based on this behavior alone.

Re: Protestware for coding agents

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Post by whateveracct » Thu, May 28, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

bloody-crow wrote: post #9

I can understand having some moral opposition to using gen-AI or accepting AI contributions to your projects. I personally disagree with this, but it's a defensible position at least. Trying to harm your users for using gen-AI seems like the worst type of overeager activism that does more to destroy your reputation and trust than achieving anything tangible. I would advise against hiring the author of this change in…

if a logging a string literal to stdout can harm your users, that's on them lol. cmon now.

be competent, people!