@fireborn@dragonscave.space I think the vibe coding trend in the blindness tech community is at odds between necessary empowerment and ignorance and disdain for expertise.
I notice a lot of experts, in open source and in commercial tech companies, have treated blind users with disdain, laying the groundwork for a backlash as soon as this technology became convincing enough. Not good enough, convincing enough.
Basically we’re now faced with a group of people who deeply emotionally distrust the ones who know what they’re doing, and can’t necessarily tell apart the experts who care from the ones who don’t.
They also lack the ability to distinguish between what’s simple or complicated, since the whole process is a black box. Chances are nobody who was in a position to teach them five years ago bothered to.
Ultimately, I think the solution is the same that was always proposed by the open source movement: community. The question is how to establish the necessary emotional bonds.
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