Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
by tasuki on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:48AM
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> It's like someone claiming that automobiles don't improve personal mobility.
I prefer walking or cycling and often walk about 8km a day around town, for both mobility and exercise. (Other people's) automobiles make my experience worse, not better.
I'm sure there's an analogy somewhere.
(Sure, automobiles improve the speed of mobility, if that's the only thing you care about...)
Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
by bandrami on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:04AM
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I don't think I'm asking for something unreasonable: I'll believe this actually speeds up software creation when one of my vendors starts getting me software faster. That's not some crazy ludditism on my part, I don't think?
I'm not sure what to say. It's like someone claiming that automobiles don't improve personal mobility. There are a lot of logical reasons to be against the mass adoption of automobiles, but "lack of effectiveness as a form of personal mobility" is not one of them.
Hearing things like this does give me a little hope though, as I think it means the total collapse of the software engineering industry is probably still a few years away, if so many companies are still so far behind the curve.