Comment by chii
6 days ago
> They want to turn artists and craftsmen into assembly line supervisors.
the same was uttered by blacksmiths and other craftsman who has been displaced by technology. Yet they are mercilessly crushed.
Your enjoyment of a job is not a consideration to those paying you to do it; and if there's a more efficient way, it will be adopted. The idea that your job is your identity may be at fault here - and when someone's identity is being threatened (as it very much is right now with these new AI tools), they respond very negatively.
> the same was uttered by blacksmiths and other craftsman who has been displaced by technology. Yet they are mercilessly crushed.
This is misleading. The job of blacksmith wasn't automated away. There's just no demand for their services anymore, because we no longer have knights wearing armor, brandishing swords, and riding horses. In contrast, computer software is not disappearing; if anything, it's becoming ubiquitous.
> Your enjoyment of a job is not a consideration to those paying you to do it
But it is a consideration to me in offering my services. And everyone admits that even with LLMs and agents, experienced senior developers are crucial to keep the whole process from falling into utter crap and failure. Claude can't supervise itself.
> The idea that your job is your identity may be at fault here
No, it's just about not wanting to spend a large portion of my waking hours doing something I hate.
> This is misleading. The job of blacksmith wasn't automated away. There's just no demand for their services anymore, because we no longer have knights wearing armor, brandishing swords, and riding horses. In contrast, computer software is not disappearing; if anything, it's becoming ubiquitous.
Why didn't blacksmiths produce rail tracks, if not because they were replaced by more efficient processes? One could say iron and steel became as ubiquitous during the Industrial Revolution as computer software is becoming today...
> Why didn't blacksmiths produce rail tracks
This is really a silly and pointless discussion, as well as totally irrelevant.
The linked article made very clear that Claude had to be closely, strictly guided and supervised by expert software developers. Claude is not threatening them with extinction.