Look around. We have been livestock for at least a decade now.

In fact, we are worse. At least livestock are cared for.

So fire them and hire the experienced people excluded due to ageism who can't get a foot in the door anywhere because their resume shows that they went to college before the internet became commercialized.

It used to be fun before companies figured out how to put claustrophobic guardrails on our autonomy.

For some of us, our jobs have already been completely disrupted by other factors (e.g., ageism) so there is nothing to lose here after 2 years and 2400+ job applications with nothing to show for it.

Clearly society wants me to strike out on my own; and that has been facilitated by the rise of agentic coding.

If you've not been paying attention to the news, caring for the common good/welfare is now obsolete and self destructive. We are in survival mode. It's everyone for themselves now.

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Are microtransactions still on the table?

> The building we exited was another one of the terrafoam projects. Terrafoam was a super-low-cost building material, and all of the welfare dorms were made out of it. They took a clay-like mud, aerated it into a thick foam, formed it into large panels and fired it like a brick with a mobile furnace. It was cheap and it allowed them to erect large buildings quickly. The robots had put up the building next to ours in a week.

> The government had finally figured out that giving choices to people on welfare was not such a great idea, and it was also expensive. Instead of giving people a welfare check, they started putting welfare recipients directly into government housing and serving them meals in a cafeteria. If the government could drive the cost of that housing and food down, it minimized the amount of money they had to spend per welfare recipient.

> As the robots took over in the workplace, the number of welfare recipients grew rapidly. Manna replaced tens of millions of minimum wage workers with robots, and terrafoam housing became the warehouse of choice for them. Terrafoam buildings were not pretty, but they were incredibly inexpensive to build and were designed for maximum occupancy

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Private equity will buy them all up and rent them out.

We will own nothing and be told to be happy or else.

Re-enchantment

I've been coding for 40 years (23 years at an S&P500) and these coding agents write better documentation than I've ever seen from my peers. You just need to work with it and not expect it to do 100% of the work in one shot.