its just uber for software engineering instead of taxi driving.

[aloe@app.wafrn.net]

its just uber for software engineering instead of taxi driving. how do we not recognize the playbook at this point. its the same six guys doing it since before elon musk got his hair plugs

[aloe@app.wafrn.net]

maybe the difference is people are actually buying the "its the machine doing it" framing. like, uber tries, but you still see a name and a picture, you can still chat about the weather in the car. here the labor is so atomized, ground to slurry and reconstituted, theres no individual authorship

[aloe@app.wafrn.net]

and, since people are so obsessed with individual authorship and unused to perceiving collective work to begin with …