I have my doubts, but I find it hilarious that using tech gatekeepers using leetcode as some IQ test or meritocracy can be automated away.
I guarantee that the "you're not useful to society so you deserve nothing" techbros will fight this hard the moment it comes for their jobs.
How easy it would be to automate management and executive positions? :cap-think:
I remember the programmer T-shirt that said "go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"
Well how the turns table.
They have more money than the rest of the precariat, so they may have more means to secure their place, obsolete or not.
It may be like prison guards and cops that maintain strong unions while everyone else loses theirs.
If there's ever a "coders' union" I guarantee it will be a chud assembly actively seeking to crush other non-coder workers.
Unlike cops though, there's no interest in capital keeping them around. Look at every other socially privileged labour aristocracy from the cotton weavers and the guilds on up. Thrown under the bus at the first opportunity.
This. Cops are important as they are the distributors of violence at the behest of the state and have always existed in some way or form throughout history. Coders, though valuable, are not as valuable as a man willing to put on a bulletproof vest and take a truncheon to their fellow man. Also of note is coders are distinct from millionaire and billionaire techbros and will likely be quickly dumped for a majority of code made by machines and then edited by a privileged few by companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.
in my experience as a software engineer attempting to organize her workplace:
the people who are likely to unionize a tech workplace are FOSS communists, the chud programmers are too bootstrappy and think that somehow they personally can negotiate better than any collective bargaining thus have no use for it
Tech bros: "Sorry, peons. If AI takes your job away - too bad for you. You picked the wrong lifestyle."
Also tech bros: "AI can replace programmers? Congress needs to step in and do something to protect our jobs. Erm.... To protect jobs that are vital to American security, the American economy, and the American way of life. We have noticed a disturbing trend recently. A lack of respect for our great country. We pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America..."
Put the AI in place of tech bro programmers maybe ain't so bad. But put it in front of the project managers and executives with their ever shifting scope and goalposts on dev projects, it's likely to go full Skynet.
meh, call me when it can debug its own code or troubleshoot system problems
Thank god we don’t have to pay those tech brocialists inflated wages anymore! They need to get real jobs like working for our small business owners
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