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by colechristensen 72 days ago
This strikes me the same way the people in college who would print 497 empty pages at the end of the semester for the quota "they'd paid for" or that one guy who made lemonade at restaurants with the free lemon wedges and sugar packets. "Contempt for users" is silly. Adjusting terms to handle users who use things as not intended isn't contempt.
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mccoyb 72 days ago
Contempt for users is not silly when the CEO of said company has repeatedly claimed they will replace SWEs "end-to-end" by next year.

I'm not sure what to say. You're either listening to the actions of these companies, or you're not in a place where you feel the need to be concerned be their actions.

I'm in a place where I'm concerned by their actions, and the impact that their claims and behavior have on the working environment around me.

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colechristensen 72 days ago
At no point in the last 10,000 years of human civilization has there not been a developing technology that threatened to forever reshape and displace a class of labor.

Or are you also upset about the modern plight of the telephone operator, farrier, or coal miner?

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mccoyb 72 days ago
I see -- and AI is just like all technologies that came before it ...

It is not a class of labor ... it is all digital labor. Do you or do you not understand this?

It is digital knowledge itself, and then all communication labor, and then all physical labor with robotics.

Is this clear to you?

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NewsaHackO 72 days ago
Are SWE's the only digital labor job?
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colechristensen 72 days ago
And? Hyperbolic fear of change always exists and there's always been more work.

Marx' whole idea of Communism was predicted on the fact that he assumed industrialization would lead to a post-scarcity society requiring virtually no work and a overhaul of how everything was owned and produced. Boy was he wrong.

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xvector 72 days ago
Oh nooo, labor might be automated and we might see advancement that makes the Industrial Revolution look small! Oh, the humanity! Please someone, stop progressing humanity, I need to cling to my sticks!
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serial_dev 71 days ago
Did he say they will replace SWEs, or maybe something more nuanced, that code will be written by AI tools?

Honest question from my end, I try to not read every AI related news that keeps telling me “it’s over, good luck feeding your family in 9-12 months”.

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