banteg: dismissing AI decompilation to keep humans grinding is 'performative, wasteful and cruel'
banteg · x · 2026-09-08
Developer banteg sharply criticized those dismissing the benefits of AI-powered decompilation: preferring humans to spend another ten years on what AI has already solved makes them 'really good slave owners' — willing to waste tens of thousands of hours of other people's time. He calls the attitude performative, wasteful, and cruel. A notable voice in the ongoing debate over AI automating repetitive intellectual labor.
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