Craft

Graham writes about programming as a creative practice, something akin to a craft. He compares hacking to painting in a way that ennobles both, arguing that they have equivalent intellectual status and symmetric concerns. (In one passage, he writes: ‘Great software...requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you... See more

I feel impatient, though, when I encounter yet another essay that pines after the past. Yes, if only we could return to that world — where newspapers raked in ad revenue; where rent was cheap in lower Manhattan; where there were thousands of journalism jobs across the country — then maybe American criticism could be great again. But we can’t revive

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One reason managers feel so productive using AI is that they benefit from doing so. Workers, on the other hand, are more likely to suspect that to use AI effectively is to aid in their own eventual replacement by AI tools. “While the upside is murky, the downside risks are clear and often existential for some folks who worry about their job... See more

During the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, the dominant view among economists has been that belief in long-term technological unemployment was indeed a fallacy. More recently, there has been increased support for the view that the benefits of automation are not equally distributed.[47][48][49]