There will be plenty of work fixing the things that we broke thanks to the most dangerous AI psychosis of all – the hallucinatory belief that "writing code" is the same thing as "software engineering."
Code is a liability (not an asset) Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/
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