“Manipulated”
This is the way. Fool the machines.
Do it to have a laugh but don’t kid yourself this will change anything. Your time is limited and precious, the machine can scale beyond our comprehension. It doesn’t feel and can’t be humiliated or humbled.
But the bean counter of the corporation paying for it can suffer for the wasted money
Next up; admin instructions to translate LinkedIn spam to Jive
Chump don’ want no job, chump don’t GET da job!
Haven’t had many recruiters reach out to me since the rise of llms. Guess there is a bright side after all.
I just had a live human cold call me last night. He asked if I was looking for a new job, I said no, he said have a good night.
When I was laid off I marked it on LinkedIn, and I noticed an uptick in “recruiters” that were funneling laid-off software devs into MTurk style gigs where they graded LLM responses for a set payout.
Pretty good way to shift your developer labor force from FTEs with benefits and labor law protections to gig workers with zero job security or bargaining power.
Seems like that’s most of the point. Quality software wasn’t really the point of the SaaS wave, the point was to control the target sector and put a choke point in everyone’s real business for software CEOs. LLMs are the same thing, but with software development itself being the thing controlled.
Of course it causes deskilling, that’s exactly the point. They’re trying to make everyone dependent upon their corporations to do any software development at all, and then they can control everything about how it gets done.
In a way, as a software developer myself, I feel like I was played for a fool for the last two decades. Software development was never about improving anyone’s life and always about controlling other people and companies, and extracting all of the profits for themselves. They paid us pretty well to do this because they had no choice. Now they do.
Whether software development is about improving anyone’s life is up to us. I used to do OSS development because I like making fun software, now I do OSS development because I am intent on permanently ruining the value prop of predatory capitalist software shops. Their tragic flaw is that they must always seek profit above all else, and it will be their undoing because I don’t want to get rich. I want them to get fucked.
They are all over me. I expect it’s because I work for an AI-adjacent company.
