Programmers told everyone to learn to code; now AI codes and it's a 'humanitarian crisis'
VraserX · x · 2026-10-11
@VraserX mocks an industry irony: for decades programmers urged everyone else to learn to code because automation was coming for other jobs. Now that AI is learning to code, automation suddenly becomes a 'humanitarian crisis.'
A pointed take on the double standard in debates over AI's impact on programming jobs.
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