Google just spat in my face
The article critiques Google's recent initiatives in AI and web development, arguing that they undermine professional skills. It expresses frustration over the perception that traditional development practices are outdated and that expertise is being diminished. The author warns that these changes could lead to a deskilling of the workforce and increased reliance on AI tools.
- ▪Google's new microsite promotes a set of skills for AI coding agents, which the author views as an advertisement for the AI industrial complex.
- ▪The term 'modern web' suggests that current development practices are obsolete, prompting a rejection of established knowledge.
- ▪The author argues that Google's approach to web development is a deskilling effort that threatens the agency of professional developers.
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| Original publisher | dbushell.com |
| Canonical URL | https://dbushell.com/2026/05/20/google-just-spat-in-my-face/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 11:09:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T11:21:10.973Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T11:21:10.973Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | nA5WQ6IM25Tk |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Google just spat in my face Subscribe Blog RSS feed Notes RSS feed or Combined RSS feed and follow Mastodon Bluesky Wednesday 20 May 2026 Play Synthesised Audio It’s Google I/O week and this year’s theme is performative slop. Budding Googlers battle it out on stage vying for executive eyeballs. The prize? Exemption from the next culling.As you might know AI isn’t my cup of tea and my AI policy explains why.AI peddlers like Google have made one thing abundantly clear: their product will take your skills. It will take your profession. It will dehumanise you and you’ll pay for it.Google’s webI figured Google’s Prompt API would be the most offensive attack on an open web I’d witness this month.
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