artificial intelligence

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The article explores the concept of techno-feudalism in comparison to traditional feudal systems, and highlights both the opportunities and challenges of tech platforms in current digital economy.

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants aren’t just changing how we write software - they’re fundamentally transforming who we are. We’re shifting from creators to orchestrators, from builders to overseers. From engineers to something that looks suspiciously like… managers.

Ah, the tech industry.

Complacency whilst the AI consumes