Software engineers are the last people who get to be Luddites about AI

Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI

Software engineers are angry that AI is automating their skills, but they have spent their careers automating other people's jobs. The author traces this irony back to the original Luddites: textile workers who smashed power looms. Engineers aren't the weavers in that story; they're the mechanics who built the looms, and those mechanics were themselves automated away fifty years later. Complaining now is undignified.