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Now about the grief angle. This is AI Inevitability Soothsaying.[1] It’s all just a backdrop for hammering home the same inevitabilism: GenAI, GenAI, GenAI. Just slap on whatever excuse to hammer this over, and over, and over. Grief, self-identity, some other pseudo-humanistic angle. Now is the time that programmers talk about their feelings. Give me a break. Because the AI hype machine isn’t content with just eventually taking your job or your craft. It can’t just quietly get exponentially better until it sweeps your legs effortlessly. No, because there’s also a market out there, and a hype needs to be built. So now you need to see it all day in your tech news aggregator. Just push all the interesting stuff out. Replace with autopilot. No, really. Even if AI worked perfectly right now you would still need to have a constant churn of content about how to babysit this thing that speaks English already and is more capable than you. I guess it’s kind of paradoxical. | ||