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by andy99·1d ago·view on hn ↗
> Software development was one of the last ‘guild fields’ and now we are seeing its industrialisation occur.

Doesn’t really support the rest of the argument. If you’re a skeptic and think it’s all hype, there’s nothing to worry about.

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that'd only be true if you have a lot of trust that people care about quality. It's wrong to think of industrialization as only affecting producers. Fast fashion is a good example of this. There's studies on the quality of for example jeans and they've declined over decades. Mid 20th century cotton denim was a lot better than what you can buy now. Animation is another one as many people have noticed, you have movies that have somehow managed to decline in quality but nobody cares because you can churn out ten times as many. The nutritional quality of food has declined for 60 years as ultra-processed and industrially produced foods have taken over.

The worst scenario isn't actually that machines are intelligent and you lose your job, it's that they're stupid and you lose your job because in our quantitative glutton culture qualitative judgement is entirely gone to begin with