The Center Has a Bias | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps.
There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem
to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no topic has
been more polarising than AI coding agents.

There is a difference between saying “this looks flawed in principle” and saying
“I used this enough to understand where it breaks, where it helps, and how it
changes my work.” The second type of criticism is expensive. It costs time,
frustration, and a genuine willingness to engage.

But what does the center look like? I consider myself to be part of the center:
cautiously excited, but also not without criticism. By my observation though
that center is not neutral in the way people imagine it to be. Its bias is not
towards endorsement so much as towards engagement, because the middle ground
between rejecting a technology outright and embracing it fully is usually
occupied by people willing to explore it seriously enough to judge it.

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