The crawlers have knocked my sites offline1, keeping things online required considerable financial effort2, even more work to counter the crawler assault3. My work has been stolen and regurgritated. I've had trouble finding work due to my unwillingness to use these "things"4.

There are countless people who can say the same.

The entire "AI" business is evil. What do we do with evil? We fucking fight it, not debate it, not "keep an open mind" about it.

And if you can't reach a consensus in an organization? Then do the next best thing: shut up. Or you end up burning bridges, and burn them hard.

1. They no longer do, but not for lack of trying. ↩︎

2. Upscaling my server from time to time was not cheap, for one, and that's only half of it. ↩︎

3. I'm proud of what I accomplished with iocaine, but I could have spent the time I had to dedicate to it on better things. ↩︎

4. I'm okay on the work front at the moment, though. ↩︎