If you programmers still don’t want users running servers, then I propose you look at your thinking a bit, and wonder if you’re perhaps a member of the computing ”priesthood,” trying to protect what you do from the unwashed masses? If so, you’re on the wrong side of history, imho. The inexorable process of tech is taking things you used to need to be a wizard to do, and making them easy for normal people.

Dave Winer – ”Fascinating thread on Twitter”

The link to the original Twitter thread is broken so the full original context is sort of lost in time¹ but regardless of the specific issue (servers, apparently) this quote feels apt for the current moment of AI, vibe coding, etc. Uncomfortably so because I feel uneasy about so much of the whole AI thing but maybe that is because I’m part of ”the computing ’priesthood'”.