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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Only pro is laborious, tedious programming tasks have become significantly faster to do, along with testing edge cases and stuff a programmer should be able to do but maybe doesnt need to.
Just about everything else is negative.
Eh, it also fixed search because it can read through all the SEO crap that fucked over regular search engines.
As long as you click the link to the website attached to the summary of course.
I don't know, it's also fun to do role play games with a locally hosted thingamabob-bot-computer-talker. I recently played a 1930s noir detective in New Orleans RPG with AI. It was neat and kept me entertained for hours.
There are also real people who would have a great time doing this with you. Ai does not need to exist in this scenario.