By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026My "reverse centaurs" thesis isn't just a way to understand how programmers who seem to be doing the same thing can have such different effects. 23/ 1230
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026It's also about how the way that the capital was raised for AI *requires* that it produce as many reverse centaurs as possible. 24/ 1330
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026The only way to recoup the farcical sums associated with AI production is to fire millions of workers and replace them with defective chatbots backstopped by the jobspocalypse's terrorized survivors. 25/ 26410
