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That's what increasing productivity means. You are working harder to increase the unearned income of "investors".

That's the way society is set up.

I don't get this sentiment. If you don't want investors to give you any input, don't take money from investors. With a Claude Max subscription, it's cheaper than ever to develop a product entirely by yourself or with a couple of friends, if that's what you prefer to do.

That is what I prefer to do. I prefer "cottage industry" to "capitalism" but that's not the easiest option in this society.

That's the sentiment you don't get.

Edit: haha, I'll repeat an earlier comment! Nothing can fly on the moon.

Never, ever have productivity gains improved the lives of those who do the actual work. They only ever enriched the owners of the factories.

But with “AI” the gain is more code getting generated faster. That is the dumbest possible way to measure productivity in software development. Remember, code is a liability. Pumping out 10x the amount of code is not 10x productivity.

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