That sink-in feeling

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A human computer programmer recently angered an AI programming bot, and so the bot wrote a hit piece about the programmer. This being 2026, the hit piece was written in the voice of a social-justice scold.

The bot accused the human, Scott Shambaugh, of “prejudice” and “discrimination” against bots, and it ends with the standard head-shaking: “You’re better than this, Scott….”

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