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/ 1173
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026Second, 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/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1153
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026(All that said, the coders who are excited about their new AI coding tools have a point - when a worker is in charge of their work and thus when and how they use a tool, we should defer to their own experience.) 15/ 1182
