By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026They can be made to endlessly toil away at marking the AI's homework because there are so many other workers who'll take their jobs if they refuse. 26/ 1340
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026The point being that while centaurs are good and reverse centaurs are bad, the AI bubble requires the production of reverse centaurs, to the exclusion of centaurs. 27/ 2412
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026In a similar vein, Elliott-McCrea describes how the imperatives of the AI industry are devouring its seed-corn - consuming the canon without putting anything new back in it. 28/ 1342
wiredog @wiredog.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Whatever the bubble may require, our actual customers require code that works, is maintainable, and documented. Of course I work for a DoD/intel contractor. For us, LLMs are tools, and damn useful tools. Especially when working with poorly documented APIs, like AWS’s. 100
