# Episode 5: Why Is AI Political?

**Show**: The Coding Agency
**Published**: July 23, 2026
**Duration**: 52:36
**Episode Number**: 5

## Hosts

Ray Myers, Liz Martinez

## Description

Today we examine what it really means for something to be "political", and consider the situation for engineers just trying to get things done when their technology becomes a controversy.

Resources

 * Why Linus is right and AI is wrong [https://raymyers.org/post/why-linus-is-right-and-ai-is-wrong/] - Ray Myers
 * Is it ethical to use AI? [https://charity.wtf/p/make-ai-boring-again] - Charity Majors
 * Referenced thread [https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/] from Linux Kernel Mailing List
 * ⁠Software Should Work⁠⁠ [https://softwareshould.work/] conference

Hosted by Ray Myers and Liz Martinez. Find us online at ⁠⁠thecodingagency.org⁠⁠ [https://www.thecodingagency.org/].


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