Bob’s Guns is an excellent track by Ludique.

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  • Skipping over a great deal of explanations, we know from the labor theory of value that value can be added when making a product when socially necessary labor is being employed in its manufacture. If something can be completely automated from start to finish, then the value added will tend to zero rather quickly as the labor needed to make something of this type becomes zero. Crucially, not everyone needs to adopt automation for the social necessity of the labor to change. Only one or a few firms need to do it for this change to take place and then typically the others will be outcompeted over a short period as the profit they can take goes to shit.

    This is why I find the trend of using AI to automate software engineering rather amusing as a software engineer. If completely successful it could remove one of the best paying jobs from the US economy entirely as the production of software by humans would no longer be socially necessary, the same as other things that can be automated. Then software engineers can all fulfil their destinies of becoming Factorio Youtubers.