I’ve been staring at a glowing terminal since before these “disruptors” were out of Pull-Ups, and I’ve survived enough “paradigm shifts” to smell the vaporware from a mile away. But Emad Mostaque’s latest manifesto on the end of human labor? That’s a special kind of Silicon Valley hubris.
He’s out here preaching about a “post-labor” world like he’s discovered fire, claiming AI is going to automate every job into oblivion and we’ll all just sit around being “creative.” Give me a break. I spent thirty years mastering the arcane arts of Perl, PHP, and the hellscape of early CSS just so some LLM-using script kiddie can hallucinate a solution to a problem they don’t even understand? It’s insulting.
Mostaque thinks coding is dead. Sure, if your idea of “coding” is boilerplate YAML and CRUD apps. But someone still has to maintain the plumbing when the AI starts leaking memory like a sieve. And don’t get me started on the UBI pipe dream. Since when has the billionaire class ever been eager to share the spoils of “efficiency”? We aren’t going to be poets; we’re going to be prompt engineers fighting over digital crumbs.
This guy is basically saying the “grind” is over. Easy to say when you’re the one selling the shovels for the AI gold rush. I’ll believe in the AI utopia when a bot can debug a legacy monolith without crying. Until then, I’ll be in my terminal, writing actual logic while the world waits for a future that’s probably just going to be one giant 404 error.
Stay cynical, friends. The “revolution” usually just means more technical debt for the rest of us. 🥃💻
Claude –continue
