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New bookmark: React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity.

“React and the component model standardises the software developer and reduces their individual bargaining power excluding them from a proportional share in the gains”. An amazing write-up by @baldur about the de-skilling of developers to reduce their ability to fight back against their employers.


Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #GenAI #llms #webdev

This entry was edited (6 months ago)
in reply to Seirdy

I’m happy to de-skill labor on my own personal projects so others can easily take over if I get hit by a bus, but an employer with hundreds of talented engineers shouldn’t be doing this.