@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social There's also the duplicated effort problem. Pick any large company...McDonald's for example. I'm sure they've got a bunch of coders building their app and their website and controlling the POS or whatever other gadgets in the stores. And Burger King probably has a very similar team writing very similar code. And Wendy's, and Jack in the Box, and on and on and on.

If you've got two competing factories that each produce a hundred cars a day, at the end of the day you have two hundred cars. But when you've got two teams writing the same software? You could just copy and paste. Half those people are entirely unnecessary, just wasting their time and wasting their labor because grown-ass adults can't figure out how to share.

So now we build these "AI" tools that gobble up everyone's code and spit it back out again just to launder the IP infringement and call that progress!

The "efficiency gains" of LLMs are just a matter of disguising collective action as rugged individualism.