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Yeah, but that bad code also had the chance to be caught and fixed in review. If you get rid of reviewing code (human-written, AI-written, squirrel-written, whatever) you get rid of that chance. Hence the not trusting it blindly part.

The article literally describes ChatGPT regurgitating something it sucked up on the Internet to this day.

There's still a big ecosystem of people selling homemade sewn/knit products online, selling at craft fairs, selling sewing patterns, running classes, etc.

Even in something as heavily automated and mass produced as clothing, there's still a market for smaller scale, higher quality products.

You can argue the degree to which they influence each other, but technological progress and societal inequality are definitely not "independent axis".