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> The primary outcome appears to be increased profit margins rather than societal advancement. While previous technological revolutions created new industries and democratized access, AI seems focused on optimizing existing processes without providing comparable societal benefits.

This is the thing that worries me the most about AI.

The author's ramblings dovetails with this a bit in their "but the craft" section. They vaguely attack the idea of code-golfing and focusing on coding for the craft as essentially incompatible with the corporate model of programming work. And perhaps they're right. If they are, though, this AI wave/hype being mostly about process-streamlining and such seems to be a distillation of that fact.