Cory Doctorow@pluralistic@mamot.fr
The workers who describe their on-the-job AI as a hellish monstrosity are being ordered to use AI, in workplaces where mass firings have terrified the survivors, who are told they must use the AI to make up for their jobless former colleagues. They are reverse-centaurs: machines assisted by human workers:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war
There is no way that AI can be worth 35% of the economy if all it does is produce some happy centaurs.
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David Abigt :verified: 🌎
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr This is precisely the opposite of what I see, where companies do not want to provide devs AI tools, and the devs want to use them. Many are spending their own money to get access to AI tools.