2026-02-12 09:45 UTC
@mattwilcox this may be playing out at a smaller scale, firms that had sacked copywriters or programmers (or other jobs considered easy AI tasks) are apparently starting to hire these people back.
The jobs will be less fun; they'll involve fixing the mess that happened in the interim.
I hope the turn happens at a smaller scale before whole nations get caught up in this mess!
There may be a skills shortage because people fell into the vibe-coding pit in recent years. Good for the rest of us!
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@mattwilcox@mstdn.social 2026-02-12 09:49
@sarajw 100% agree on all points. I'm not sure whether people just don't recognise patterns re-playing, or whether that doesn't matter because social and economic systems chug along in their normal flow anyway and are pretty much impossible to actually control, because they're mostly emergent rather than directed. Like no bird being in charge of the flock - you can see how it works but have no real control. Human systems feel more and more like that.