Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
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2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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And so the, like,
At the very least, one can say that they're thinking about these problems, but they're also experiencing these problems.
That they have really seen themselves as kind of the canaries in the coal mine of this march of automation.
And it's not just a matter of kind of abstract concerns about, well, if we saw vast...
white collar employment shocks, would that lead to social instability?
I mean, they certainly have those concerns, but they also have very personal concerns that a lot of their reactions to over the course of just a year watching the proportion of code that they write themselves go to zero is a certain kind of mournfulness about this activity that they spent a long time being trained to do that
you know, they care about for its own sake because it gives them, you know, feelings of intellectual pleasure or competence that this has all been eroded so quickly that there's a kind of existential gloom where on the one hand they feel like, okay, yeah, this does seem like it's been great for productivity.
But on the other hand, like we are, you know, stripping ourselves of the human activities that like,
we spent our lives gearing ourselves up to do.
And there's feelings of sorrow and fear and resignation, and nobody quite knows how to deal with that kind of thing.
And, you know, the kind of optimistic scenario is, well, as we take away, like, certain tasks, we are going to add other tasks that, you know, a lot of these software engineers said, okay, well, I don't really write my code anymore, but I still do the design brief to think about how it should work overall.
And,
You know, now I'm effectively a manager because I'm managing an entire team of AIs who are writing code for me.
And those, you know, those are different challenges and different pleasures.
And we've kind of like relocated the like human aptitude here to just like a different place in the chain.
That there is a worry that if these machines become so capable across the board so quickly that there won't be any refuge for us to relocate to.
You know, I always go into this stuff with an open mind about what I'm going to discover or else it's not worth doing.
And insofar as I had kind of priors in this piece, my feeling was, look, I know that these things are really good at matching patterns and they're really good at structured problems.
So, of course, they're going to be good at coding because coding is a highly structured language without a lot of ambiguity.
And at the end, you can just tell whether it works or not.
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