Haha, AI can't do $THING [LWN.net]

Haha, AI can't do $THING

Posted Jun 1, 2026 13:49 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Haha, AI can't do $THING by dskoll
Parent article: Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents

> the massive social upheaval caused by creators' livelihoods being decimated by AI.

Just a personal nitpick, but 'decimated' ("Reduce by 1/10") would be a wildly optimistic scenario. 'Obliterated' is probably more accurate.

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Haha, AI can't do $THING

Posted Jun 1, 2026 18:17 UTC (Mon) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] (1 responses)

I also prefer the original Latin meaning of "decimated", but language is a living thing. Words do change their meaning, and the modern usage of "reduced to 1/10 its original size" is now common enough that we have to treat it as valid. I guess you can still complain, but you'll be spitting in the wind when you do it.

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Posted Jun 1, 2026 18:18 UTC (Mon) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link]

We enjoy language pedantry as much as the next person, but this is going well off-topic.