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We're sad because a lot of people have bought into overly-hyped bullshit factories made by assholes who claim they can replace us.
They can't, but our employers are currently too uninformed (or addicted to the bullshit, or desperate to prop up their stock prices) to realize that the bullshit factories aren't capable of replacing us.
That's causing a lot of turmoil in the form of unnecessary layoffs and rehires, worsening software quality, and general job insecurity.
That and the entire purpose of AI is to reduce agency, which is arguably the single most important factor in job--if not life--satisfsction.
It's like being shackled to an annoying and incompetent younger cousin for a summer and being held responsible for all the problems they cause while they reap all praise and rewards for anything they happen to do right. Your parents float the idea of adopting the cousin and disowning you. Oh, and the cousin's parents are yhe Koch brothers.
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this article is a bunch of doomerism commie noise