And just like modern vehicles rob the user of autonomy, so too for coding agents. Modern tech moves further and further away from empowering normal people and increasingly serves to grow the influence of corporations and governments over our day to day lives.
replyIt's not inherent, but it is reality unless folks stop giving up agency for convenience. I'm not holding my breath.
Cars are actually a good metaphor, it works on so many levels. Modern cars have "democratized" access to long-distance travel in a sense, and most people don't need to do any heavy maintenance themselves. But the flipside is that places that have adopted it have become "car dependent" and build cities assuming access to cars.
replyAre we net better off than if we didn't have cars and simply built public transport with walkable cities?
Soon enough we'll have ads playing in our cars at stoplights.
replyWe have that now for most people, the radio. But hopefully we will be in a llm self driving car and can get ads for the entire trip.
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