[satvikpendem]

Unions won't do anything for AI based job displacement though, because they don't need you, whether you're in a union or not. I see this going the same way as SAG for example, if AI video or film creation ever gets good enough where a single "director" can make an entire movie themselves with no actors.

Unions and indeed any bargaining organization only have leverage when their people are needed, but what happens when the people themselves are needed no longer?

[parpfish]

Well, it’s all probably a moot point now because devs have lost leverage. But the union contracts can help bring some order to the layoff process - which employees get laid off and severance for the others.

[tavavex]

It would've definitely helped to soften the blow. We can only blame the last generation of devs who did nothing. But if LLMs end up being as useful as claimed, nothing could halt that transition.