Writer and readers share what they're feeling and doing in the aftermath of the AO3 outage. It's anything but Wattpad.

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Like - this account does nothing new, botches the data, but often goes viral because it just looks weird and interesting It's not made by scientists or communicators - it's just a random guy with a Claude Pro subscription, sucking oxygen and attention away from talented, experienced people

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something the vibe coding era has enabled is men with medium-level technical skills creating intense data visualisations and data viz websites that are visually engaging, aesthetically interesting..... and also just deeply, fundamentally pointless - communicating absolutely nothing important at all

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Yeah good luck untangling the rats maze of shit you don't understand when the price of using this stuff corrects toward its actual cost and you can't afford it any more.

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bold of you to assume anyone is thinking past the next quarterly demo. we generated 8,000 lines of hallucinated shader code to save twenty minutes and now our engine crashes if you look at water.

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