From AI Optimist to Doomer: One Developer's Journey

The Education of a Doomer

Fernando Borretti explains why he shifted from AI optimism to deep concern. He examines economics, alignment, and control, arguing that AI's rapid progress in capabilities outpaces our ability to understand or govern it. He points to the rise of AI slop in writing and the degradation of software engineering discourse as evidence that we are willingly ceding control to machines. Borretti warns that as AI becomes more capable, humans may become economically and politically irrelevant, and even our vices are being automated.