Devs were always feeding the machine to replace everyone else.

We were always replacing ourselves: Every "reusable" function or class or library you ever wrote represents lines of code won't get paid to write again. Every compiler takes jobs away from assembly coders.

The looming thing today is qualitatively different, because it's not formalizing something to reliably mass-produce.

It’s a point that isn’t made often. AI is mostly saying the quiet part out loud.

The big money valley bros figured it out just before they embraced regressive conservatism for their politics. There’s a reason we went from massages and pet daycare to rentier agriculture executive style management of the peons.