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>>tablet+(OP)
> Our jobs are just as much in tech’s line of fire as everybody else’s have been for the last 3 decades. We’re not East Coast dockworkers; we won’t stop progress on our own.

If you really believe in the power of LLMs then it’s time to wake up. The writing is on the wall. Automation the workforce further into precarious jobs.

The idea that tech workers can’t stop so-called “progress” is at best a dumb self-fulfilling prophecy. Our workplaces depend on us. We have the power to put the brakes on whatever our employers are up to by organizing and striking.

Tech workers should be organizing to prepare for the profit-taking moves management has in store for us as the tech gets better and better. If LLMs really live up to their potential, It’s just going to get worse from here.

They keep bragging about how many people are going to lose their jobs and they mean us. They’re bragging about firing us! It’s foolish for us to sit idly by while we are the ones who make them their profits.

>>grafma+dI
This is the cost of getting used to outrageously high salaries as compared to other engineering fields. Market forces allowed you to inflate your income beyond reason, now the same forces are taking it away. Turns out decoupling your pay from value delivered wasn't such a good idea after all.

>>dartha+BK
The fact that companies pay these prices shows the money is there. The money is there because of the value these workers create.

>>grafma+dx1
.. and now the money won't be there because the value has fallen in the era of AI code generators.