Cory Doctorow on Nostr: They're just treating AI like a normal technology, like a plugin. Programmers' tools ...

They're just treating AI like a normal technology, like a plugin. Programmers' tools have acquired useful automation plugins at regular intervals for decades - syntax checkers, advanced debuggers, automated wireframe utilities. For many programmers - including several of my acquaintance, whom I know to be both thoughtful and skilled - AI is another plugin, one they find useful enough to be modestly enthusiastic about.

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