A lot of corporate software development has turned out to be an example of Graeber's "bullshit job". The work consists of shuffling pucks for a business hierarchy. Value comes from oligopolies, abusive business models, and strip-mining old innovations. Design exists to squeeze the customer. Next to none of the outcomes really matter. Few projects ship and those that do make the world a worse place
Makes sense that such a bullshit job would be perfectly automated by an LLM bullshit generator
@baldur It's deeply sad that Graeber - and Mark Fisher for that matter - are no longer with us. It feels like we could use their insight right now.