Cory Doctorow

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115 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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7am · Who decided AI was inevitable? · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

I can't believe how much I'm getting done.

and other programmers who are also skilled and also reliable narrators of their experience who say, I can't believe how much tech debt we're incurring at my company.

We make whatever avionics never get on an airplane again because we have shoveled so much bad code into the world's civilian aircraft that they should never be trusted to fly.

You look at those two groups of people and

try to resolve this seeming paradox and what you find inevitably is that the first group of workers are choosing how they use AI and the second group of workers, well, they've seen all their colleagues fired and they're being asked to work at 10 times the former speed to mark the AI's homework and take the blame when it goes wrong.

I think that there's plenty of useful things we can do with AI.

I just don't think we're going to do them in the conditions in which the imperative is to fire workers and replace them with software.

Well, you know, not all bubbles are created equally.

If you remember the Enron bubble where you had this energy trading firm that was just doing accounting fraud and sucking up the money of ordinary people who were just trying to save so that they wouldn't starve to death or be homeless when they got old.

When they popped, there was nothing left behind for all the billions they stole.

Meanwhile, there was another fraud at the same time called WorldCom.

And WorldCom was also an accounting fraud, but it wasn't a pure accounting fraud.

WorldCom's claim was they had hundreds of billions of dollars in fiber optic orders.

And to kind of make the show look good, they dug up streets all over the world and put fiber optic in the ground.

And that fiber optic is still there.

So when you look at contemporary bubbles like cryptocurrency, it's not really going to leave anything behind.

when crypto goes to zero, we'll have like ugly monkey JPEGs and stupid Austrian economics.

But when AI goes to zero, well, we'll still have data centers, we'll still have GPUs, we'll have a lot of workers who know how to do stuff.

And we're going to have these open source models that have barely been touched, barely been optimized.

And every time someone looks at them, they can find all kinds of ways to make them perform better.

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