Code is a liability, not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. It is a brittle machine that eventually "wears out" and needs a top-to-bottom refactoring to keep being in good working order.

It's code's capabilities that are assets.

«"Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well»

And then came #AI.

@pluralistic nails it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#CodeIsLaw #CS #code

Code is a liability, not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. It is a brittle machine that eventually "wears out" and needs a top-to-bottom refactoring to keep being in good working order.

It's code's capabilities that are assets.

«"Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well»

And then came #AI.

@pluralistic nails it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#CodeIsLaw #CS #code

Hi, Mastodon 🦣 can you help me out?

If you can test in actual Safari, what do you see for this demo?

https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/EayKKjQ??editors=1100

Is it the result in the first screenshot? (what I get in Chrome & Firefox)

Or the result in the second screenshot? (what I get in Epiphany)

If you cannot test yourself, boosts appreciated. 🙏

Thank you!

#CSS #SVG #filter #svgFilter #overflow #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #code #coding #frontend #bug