Like everyone in the world, my feeds are full of posts by AI Maximizers. I do use AI but I am not a Maximizer for the basic reason: I am responsible for the code, at the end of the day.

February 25, 2026 - 12:58 UTC

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As a business owner, if Anthropic decides to ban my account for some unknown reason, or has a serious outage, I still need to be able to ship changes. I still need to be able to understand the code.
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Local models may change this one day but they don't really work well on my laptop, it takes longer for a local LLM to do a change than me.
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