This is not a criticism of AI - Steve Yegge is one of the foremost AI for coding evangelists out there. He even states “AI does actually make you more 10x productive, once you learn how” in the article.
The entire point is that the company is capturing 100% of the value of AI, burning out engineers in the process. Supposing that AI actually does lead to a huge productivity boost (debatable), and software engineers aren’t getting paid more or cut back their hours drastically, then only capital is seeing benefits and not labor. Combined with the idea that engineers are burning out on this new way of working (believable), then you’ve got an enormous imbalance between capital and labor.
It’s not a criticism of AI - essentially it’s a criticism of capitalism through the lens of AI. I have lots of criticisms of the foundations of his arguments, but it’s nice to see any discussion around capital vs labor these days.
Oh great, another criticism of AI illustrated with AI art. My favorite thing to see lately
This is not a criticism of AI - Steve Yegge is one of the foremost AI for coding evangelists out there. He even states “AI does actually make you more 10x productive, once you learn how” in the article.
The entire point is that the company is capturing 100% of the value of AI, burning out engineers in the process. Supposing that AI actually does lead to a huge productivity boost (debatable), and software engineers aren’t getting paid more or cut back their hours drastically, then only capital is seeing benefits and not labor. Combined with the idea that engineers are burning out on this new way of working (believable), then you’ve got an enormous imbalance between capital and labor.
It’s not a criticism of AI - essentially it’s a criticism of capitalism through the lens of AI. I have lots of criticisms of the foundations of his arguments, but it’s nice to see any discussion around capital vs labor these days.