Later he extended these ideas to an entire book [1].
The author's ideas are highly unconventional, but I won't say it's unreasonable or even uncommon in tech - Bill Joy's Why The Future Doesn't Need Us shares similar concerns, the author simply took a much stronger position.
[0] https://berglas.org/Articles/AIKillGrandchildren/AIKillGrand...
Maybe they are right. I often wonder about the point of building another CRUD form. We’ve taken paper forms and digitized the process, but haven’t really figured out how to avoid needing the form in the first place. Massive digital bureaucracies exist that are all about pushing around digital paperwork. It’s as if there was a twist of history that caused the development of mechanical horses pulling rubber tired carriages, instead of just inventing cars.
Most forms get digitized, then reworked later. Many digital agencies try to think beyond just forms and try to create smarter ways of getting data.
Naturally this is done for clients that spend ludicrous amounts of money to get there. So you'll never see them in governments.
Quite fun to read regardless!
Was totally thinking the same thing when I read this article. How could the above line be written seriously - PMs don't have guilt about destroying projects!