# Antman Does Software (Anthony Manning-Franklin)

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 [[i-am-an-ai-hater|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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## Ingested articles

- [[i-will-never-use-ai]] — March 2026, the nine-reason refusal