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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

* When a boss fires a worker and gives their jobs to an AI, it usually means that they don't care if that job is done well, which is why customer service jobs are being handed over to AI: pluralistic.net/2025/08/06/u... 12/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

* Bosses also love firing coders and replacing them with AI - first, because bosses are really angry about the decades when tech workers were in short supply and bosses had to pretend to like them. 13/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

Second, because if you're selling AI as a way to replace workers, what better way to convince a potential customer than to fire the workers your own company depends upon? pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/e... 14/

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Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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