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Thank you, Rob Pike, for posting this.
I am in a different field, and of little importance in that field, so it is preposterous of me to comment here, forgive me. But I wish to express how much energy I gain from reading your post.
The wave of inauthenticity is all-encompassing. I spent some four decades as a university teacher, with immense pride, only to see the very notion of teaching and education destroyed before my eyes. My friends in other professions experience the same.
I still hope for reversal.
Your message is one of sadness and loss, but is also a sign of resistance. As one of the true pathbreakers and arbiters of good taste in your field and beyond, your voice gives strength to others who try to hold on to notions of authenticity, simplicity, elegance, humility.
We pray these professional values will survive the long winter we are currently experiencing.
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🤖🎉 "Rob Pike's AI fan mail: A heartwarming tale of tech's finest slobbering over his genius. But apparently, #gratitude is dead—replaced by a rant against sky-high e-waste and the apocalypse. Thanks, AI, for reminding us why we need Wi-Fi-free cabins in the woods." 🌲💻
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/ #RobPike #AIfanmail #EWaste #TechApocalypse #WiFiFreeCabins #HackerNews #ngated -
Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/
#HackerNews #RobPike #AI #Slop #ActsOfKindness #TechNews #HackerNews
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🚀 Rob Pike, the guardian of tech sanity, is apparently so rattled by #GenAI that even #Imgur couldn't handle the heat and #crashed like a college server during finals week. 😱 Meanwhile, the article's real success? Proving that 403 errors are still a thing in 2023. 🙃
https://imgur.com/nUJCI3o #RobPike #403Errors #TechSanity #HackerNews #ngated -
🚪👋 Ian Lance Taylor says goodbye to Google after only 19 years and a side project called Go that no one's ever heard of 🤔. Apparently, he's been blessed to work with some obscure names like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson 🙄. Who knew Go would become “just another programming language”? 🎉
https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670 #IanLanceTaylor #GoodbyeGoogle #GoProgramming #RobPike #KenThompson #HackerNews #ngated