If AI disrupted any other industry as fast as software, there'd be strikes everywhere
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-03
Varun Srin argues that software's disruption by AI may be the gentlest way AI could have entered the world: if any other industry changed this much within a year, there would be striking unions and turmoil everywhere.
The observation highlights how unusually well software workers have absorbed the shift — as the fastest adopters of AI themselves, the industry transformed through individual efficiency gains rather than collective resistance.
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