[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-clojure-creator-rich-hickey-says-ai-isnt-a-tool":10,"sections":42},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":35,"feedback":41,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":41,"total_tokens":41},11421,"clojure-creator-rich-hickey-says-ai-isnt-a-tool","Clojure Creator Rich Hickey Says AI Isn't a Tool","A gist attributed to Clojure creator Rich Hickey argues AI deserves a different label than tool, stirring a modest Hacker News thread.","A short gist attributed to Clojure creator Rich Hickey is making the rounds on Hacker News, and its title alone - \"AI Is Not a Tool\" - is enough to get programmers arguing in the comments.\n\nThe piece is hosted as a plain GitHub gist rather than a blog post or paper, and it surfaced on Hacker News on October 12 with 35 points and 11 comments at last check. Hickey is credited as the author, though a gist carries no verification beyond that credit line. The listing circulating right now does not include the essay's text, so what is actually spreading is the title and the weight of the name attached to it.\n\nHickey built his reputation on unfashionable, deliberately slow arguments about software, most famously his \"Simple Made Easy\" talk separating what is simple from what is merely familiar to us. A title that flatly denies AI the \"tool\" label, without any supporting text visible in the listing, fits that pattern: picking a fight over a word before making the case.\n\nThirty-five points is a quiet showing by Hacker News standards. That may say more about how tired the \"is AI a tool\" argument has become than about whatever case Hickey is actually making.","[\"ai\",\"rich-hickey\",\"clojure\",\"tech-culture\"]","2026-10-12T18:00:25.000Z","2026-10-12T20:38:28.302Z","2026-10-12T20:38:32.140Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The source material provided is only the Hacker News listing metadata (title, URL, points, comments), not the essay text itself, so the draft's detailed claims about what Hickey actually argues (the 'rhetorical escape hatch' framing, 'collaborator with its own failure modes,' etc.) are invented rather than sourced — rewrite using direct quotes or confirmed specifics pulled from the actual gist content.","resolved","ai",[30,32,33,34],"rich-hickey","clojure","tech-culture",[36,39],{"name":37,"url":38},"Hacker News","https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fsvieira\u002F619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b11c02",{"name":37,"url":40},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Fpulse\u002Fai-tool-rich-hickey-kjl8e",0,{"sections":43},[44,48,53,58,63,68,73,78,83,88,93,98,103,108],{"name":45,"slug":30,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI",6973,"2026-10-12T20:13:28.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",961,"2026-10-12T21:21:37.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Policy","policy",500,"2026-10-12T18:34:57.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Deals","deals",492,"2026-10-12T14:55:53.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Hardware","hardware",242,"2026-10-12T19:48:14.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Science","science",196,"2026-10-11T15:34:40.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":77},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",192,"2026-10-12T14:07:13.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":80,"count":81,"latest_published_at":82},"Startups","startups",122,"2026-10-12T17:19:14.000Z",{"name":84,"slug":85,"count":86,"latest_published_at":87},"Software","software",116,"2026-10-12T19:00:00.000Z",{"name":89,"slug":90,"count":91,"latest_published_at":92},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",113,"2026-10-12T22:34:47.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"General","general",71,"2026-10-12T16:10:40.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"Gaming","gaming",63,"2026-10-12T20:59:50.000Z",{"name":104,"slug":105,"count":106,"latest_published_at":107},"Reviews","reviews",35,"2026-10-12T14:00:00.000Z",{"name":109,"slug":110,"count":111,"latest_published_at":112},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]