🔗 A Unix manifesto for the age of AI

Software development trends toward complexity, incentivized by organizations and the AI revolution. This complexity leads to decisions that prioritize superficial features over essential simplicity, emphasizing the need for human judgment in the engineering process.

AI can accelerate complexity accumulation, allowing engineers to avoid responsibility in maintaining codebases that lack clarity and documentation. The article advocates for a return to Unix principles, urging an architecture that promotes simplicity and local inference to cultivate a culture of responsibility in engineering, rather than dependency on complex AI platforms.