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1. New player shows up, changes value chain and creates abundance 2. People who benefitted from old value chain whine 3. New player throws them a bone with a sm
by benced 4y ago
1. New player shows up, changes value chain and creates abundance
2. People who benefitted from old value chain whine
3. New player throws them a bone with a small fund or maybe a setting box, doesn’t change
4. (A few years later) no one cares about the kooks who whined
I’m not even 30 yet and I’ve seen this happen again and again - it’s frankly boring at this point. We’ve seen this with Spotify and music, newspapers and the internet etc.
The practical truth is that Copilot is a useful tool for humanity to have. It is exceedingly unlikely it will be stopped because a small percentage of programmers - themselves a small percentage of people who benefit from code - feel their interests have been hurt. Change or get left behind (but make sure to enrich some lawyers on a pointless suit in the meantime).