It is wild how not protectionist software engineers are. There’s so much pressure, from AI doing your work and empowering generalists like me to capital telling you they simply must import unlimited cheaper labor. And yall are like bring it on!!

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I think it’s rooted in knowing there is no way programmers will align around the AI regulations required to secure their jobs, and if there was it would dramatically slow progress. Also the assumption that if programming jobs are cooked, so are most others and society will need to figure it out.

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But that only addresses half the pressures. In some way this post was inspired by a bewildered me watching American engineers cheerleading for infinity h-1bs