After everything in the past six months do we really think that humans are bette...

rationalist · 2026-10-30T00:36:30

Commonly attributed to Upton Sinclair:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Just like other advances in technology have replaced jobs, AI will replace jobs.

I'm sure the elevator opperators lamented push-button controls that anyone could just press too.

It sucks, but I imagine most programmers are smart enough to be able to pivot careers or how they do their jobs.

ls612 · 2026-10-30T00:40:25

The lump of labor fallacy is a fallacy not real. Phrased another way, demand for software is more or less infinite so if coding agents make everyone a 10x engineer eventually we will easily find use for 10x more software.

abejfehr · 2026-10-30T02:46:59

How? Isn’t there a finite number of people and a finite amount of time to interact with software?

ls612 · 2026-10-30T03:00:43

You underestimate just how much software humans can interact with in any given second. ;)

abejfehr · 2026-10-30T03:09:18

Sure, but that’s not infinite. It’s always a zero sum game: if someone is playing my game then they're not playing yours (even if someone else might be)

rationalist · 2026-10-30T00:44:37

> demand for software is more or less infinite so if coding agents make everyone a 10x engineer eventually we will easily find use for 10x more software.

That will probably be true.