Post #660676
2026-03-12 10:17 UTC
#LB . "In my 30 years as a software engineer I have always seen myself as a craftsman..." I have sympathy for the feelings of programmers, but I think what hasn't been made explicit yet is the fact that what AI is doing to them (and to writers, artists, professors, etc) is what capital has *already done* to other workers. Programmers have only been allowed to feel like craftsmen for the last few decades because capital's attention was elsewhere, ruining other workers' livelihoods.
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@redlibrarian@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 10:19
Marx calls the expansion of capitalist wrecking logic into previously left-alone areas of human work "subsumption", and this process won't stop until the last bit of surplus value is wrung out of the production process. The only way to stop it, the only chance of being crafts-people again, is revolution.