> The not-so-quiet goal of the LLM push by big tech was to homogenise intellectual labour such that it can be made fungible. When labour is fungible you can swap it out whenever you like for an alternative, decreasing the bargaining power of workers. Software development was one of the last ‘guild fields’ and now we are seeing its industrialisation occur.
This is really well said. I had not put my finger on it before. Maybe this is a next move in the saga to avoid labor unions in engineering.
This is really well said. I had not put my finger on it before. Maybe this is a next move in the saga to avoid labor unions in engineering.