By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Then there's AI and labor. The world is full of skilled workers who have found ways to use AI on the job that they insist have improved their work. 38/ 1452
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026It's also full of skilled workers who warn us that on-the-job AI is producing tech debt at unimaginable scale, seriously depreciating the quality of the tools we use today, and setting us up for painful reckonings in the future. 39/ 4767
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026This (seeming) contradiction melts away once you realize that these workers only *appear* to be doing the same thing. The first group of workers, excited about their AI-assisted output, are "centaurs": people assisted by machines; workers who choose the time and manner of their AI adoption. 40/ 1501
I SPILL my DRINK @spillmydrink.bsky.social · 03/08/2026the part that compounds is review capacity. writing got cheap and reviewing didn't, so teams merge things nobody there could have written, and therefore nobody there can debug at 3am. the debt is the missing why rather than the code itself. 000
