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This is one of the main reasons behind all of the technological inventions applied to labour and production: to homogenize the work, remove artisanal knowledge from the worker and add it to the organic capital of industry and last but not least remove the bargaining power of the workers.

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Yup. Good ol' Karl Marx called this process proletarianisation.

That is the stupidest thing I have heard all year - and that has quite a bit of competition. Because nobody is going to be grateful for you de-homogenizing work and adding requirements of artisanal knowledge, and removing capital from industry to a productive task. Because all of that translates to adding needless toil to the task, reducing productivity and making everyone poorer!

It utterly antithetical to the practice of engineering, productivity, making sense or making things better.

Get out of here and go worship Dis someplace else.

Are you sure? If all coding labor, for example, becomes a commodified product through coding agents, there will be zero bargaining power for people who write code. If you can't manage to move upward into the small number of management roles—which will likely be agentic by then anyway—your labor becomes just another part of the general tech labor market. This is similar to what most AI leaders are talking about regarding the labor market. You can go and tell them that this is really stupid while they are counting their billions of dollars in bulk.

If that’s the stupidest thing you’ve heard in 2026 you must spent your time at the bottom of a mineshaft or something.

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