Antman Does Software (Anthony Manning-Franklin)
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- Anthony Manning-Franklin's blog at antman-does-software.com on software craft, learning, and AI skepticism
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- blog, llm-skepticism
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- 2026-05-10
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- 2026-05-10
Anthony Manning-Franklin's personal blog at antman-does-software.com. Reflective, first-person essays on software craft, learning loops, and the cultural posture of refusing AI tooling. The March 2026 piece i-will-never-use-ai is the canonical example: nine reasons stitched into one declarative position, each a one-paragraph version of an argument that exists elsewhere in long form.
Tone is more reasoned-position than Moser's refusal. Not a hater piece, not a financial-crisis piece — closer to a developer-as-craftsman position where AI is rejected because of what it does to you, not just to the industry.
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- i-will-never-use-ai — March 2026, the nine-reason refusal