A software engineering blogger shares a reader email challenging his pragmatic, non-resistant stance toward AI displacing programmers, and his detailed response. The reader accuses him of complicity for not advocating resistance to AI-driven job displacement. The author defends his position by drawing a parallel to the Industrial Revolution and the Luddites: he prioritizes protecting vulnerable junior and mid-level engineers from career-damaging idealistic choices over rallying people to resist automation. He argues that encouraging resistance from a position of safety, while others bear the consequences, is hypocritical and potentially harmful.
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