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The only thing that will save Linux from AI is when programmers get their heads out of their asses, stop subscribing to scifi slop that AI is about take over and start asserting to everyone else how necessary human input is in their craft by forming unions.
The problem with programmers is they are quick to think their understanding of computers makes them understand everything and it created a massive blindspot of hubris big enough to allow the ruling class to destroy the potential quality of life that used to come from working as a programmer right in front of programmers eyes. I would be tempted to call it sad if programmers didn't tend to be so condescending about believing their knowledge is a universal shortcut to understanding everything else.
Programming is an industry dominated by pushovers who aren't willing to fight for anything that cannot be understood in the terms of automation, scaling or endless growth of technology. There is a willing blindness here and the rest of the world is getting really tired of it.
Fight, stop immersing yourself in stories about how AI will become sentient blah blah blah, outside of your bubble very few people actually believe this nonsense and it just blinds you to your own dehumanization that is happening right in front of your eyes for entirely human reasons that have NOTHING to do with technology working or not working and EVERYTHING to do with a failure of humans to organize and preserve the professionalism of their craft because they were convinced of delusions by the people ruling over them.
That problem isn't even specific to computer science, it's specific to most engineering fields. Programmers are just extremely good at automating, so they automate themselves out of existence.
At least in Germany, people with higher-education on-average also have more political awareness - but the more engineering their field contains, the more that awareness jumps out of the window (what I mean by that is that of all the people with higher-education, engineers have the highest rate of politically right-leaning people, which in my world-view equates to being incompetent).
Which imo comes from another problem: Computer Science had a huge boom, and now we ended up with a lot of businessmen who can hussle 70h/week to get their degree in 4 semesters, so that they can start their path to their first million. Basically, computer science got invaded by capitalists and the nerds just went to another corner in hopes not to be bothered. Not that they could have done much about it, there are way more capitalists than there are computer nerds.