I think the other piece of this that comes to mind for me is that, by and large, software developers as a culture lack class consciousness.
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@xgranade If their bosses get what they want - AI tools that are actually useful, basically - then programmers are roughly in the same position now, that the craftspeople and artisans were before industrialization, and where industrial workers in the US were before outsourcing manufacturing became more viable.
@xgranade They do not seem to be on a path to actually get their chatbots to be able to replace knowledge workers on any sort of scale - they are bad at most things, too unreliable, can't handle novelty, and need a human expert to verify anything they generate, which means you still need the human experts to at least clean up after the chatbot -
But the companies will keep trying to replace them with a machine, and replace as many of them as they can with machinery. -
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