The second one by Evan Garris describing how those same programmers gave up their only leverage on their employers, by exchanging their relationship with reality (which corporate fiat could not overrule) for a performance of fluency for its own sake.
AI code is the apotheosis of this transition.
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The Picturing Relation: Wilfrid Sellars, Agentic AI, and Engineers as a Labor Class -- Evan Garris
Wilfrid Sellars's picturing relation as a foothold for engineers facing agentic AI: a critique of agile and the case for engineers as a labor class.
