By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026It's *not* a way to cut your workforce, realize a gigantic savings, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost. 74/ 1894
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026That is why some individual coders report such delight with their AI tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. 75/ 211610
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026No one ranks them on a "token-maximization" scoreboard. No one tells them they can't do a project if it isn't "sufficiently AI." When they set out to do a project, no one makes them prove that it couldn't be "done by AI." 76/ 1791
Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I have a theory (based on experience) that often when the most AI-forward member of a dev team increases productivity by using AI tools what is really happend is they are shifting the burden of understanding the code onto colleagues reviewing their work. They look faster by making the team slower. 281
