Knowledge workers, whose jobs involve handling information rather than producing goods, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization. But generative AI and a hypercompetitive employment market is immiserating them too.
“AI” being shorthand for “Actual Indians” once again.
The companies that don’t realize you just pretend to be migrating to LLM development while laying off workers to hire cheaper labor in other countries are gonna tank.
It’s so much more costly to run development on a massive super cluster than to just have a room of 10 developers somewhere in Bangaldesh bash out some working code in a day.
The other thing is that we’re seeing unprecedented levels of slop being pushed out to production codebases. Codebases that are gonna become the backbone of companies for decades to come. Someone will have to one day be able to understand the slop and fix it.
“AI” being shorthand for “Actual Indians” once again.
The companies that don’t realize you just pretend to be migrating to LLM development while laying off workers to hire cheaper labor in other countries are gonna tank.
It’s so much more costly to run development on a massive super cluster than to just have a room of 10 developers somewhere in Bangaldesh bash out some working code in a day.
The other thing is that we’re seeing unprecedented levels of slop being pushed out to production codebases. Codebases that are gonna become the backbone of companies for decades to come. Someone will have to one day be able to understand the slop and fix it.