Abstract
A review of the current economic consequences of hype.
The economic consequences of the wealthy.#
The author’s experience.#
Thereby highlighting the immense difficulty of knowing, let alone describing what your business actually needs the developer to do in that moment. Having never been an executive at a company with greater than two people, I can tell you that even such a small enterprise’s goal posts were moving regularly, causing the only developer on our team (me) much heartache and difficulty.
The idea that an MBA can sit down with Chat GPT and explain to it what it’s supposed to be doing and get anything even vaguely resembling code, let alone production ready code has revealed to (at least engineers with their eyes open) the fundamentally adversarial relationship between the bosses and us. Literally the second they heard about something that enabled (or so they thought) the replacement of their engineering staff with, and I really cannot overstate the stupidity of this since they’ve been around since literally the sixties, CHAT BOTS, they jumped at that chance without hesitation and we started hearing about layoffs of tech workers by the tens of thousands. Bad as this is, it’s the symptom, not the disease.
The disease is people with no understanding of technology running technology companies based on what they “learned” in business school, then promptly forgot and used nepotism to get their fist (generally c-suite) job so they could be sure that they would never, ever, under any circumstances face anything resembling work (with an except or two that prove the rule) and therefore be completely unable to have compassion for the class they’re doing their damnedest to destroy, again, with FUCKING CHAT BOTS, a technology that has been around (and causing humans to fail the Turing test) since the sixties. The wealthy love to talk about the on-going class war in the U.S. as if it’s the poor that are engaged in this conflict in any way. They do this because, I can only assume, they are completely committed to being