The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI Quotes

“That certainly doesn’t seem to be the case for junior coders, whose “vibe coding” efforts might produce quick-and-dirty tools for one-off usage—for example, a script to reformat a single text file, once—but who lack the depth of experience to vet AI-produced production code for subtle errors that accumulate as “technical debt” in the enterprise systems they work on. Worse: without the hard-won experience of creatively solving a succession of programming challenges, these junior coders may never develop the requisite depth of expertise needed to do a thorough review of AI-generated code.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

“In the space of just a few months, Google declared its first dividend, fired twelve thousand workers (including many of its most senior—and thus most mouthy—technical staff),”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

“Practically everyone who falls for the AI hype is dreaming of getting a human need fulfilled without having to extend moral consideration.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

“science fiction tells us that the most important aspect of a new technology isn’t what the machine does, it’s who it does it for and who it does it to.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

“Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

“There is one thing SF writers know that the AI bosses who are gunning for generational dynastic wealth by transforming us all into AI-lashed reverse centaurs do not know, and that they absolutely don't want you to know. That thing is this: the future is up for grabs. It is not inevitable. AI isn't a genie that can't be put back into a bottle. How we use AI is up to us. Whether we use AI is up to us. The future can be ours, if we never stop remembering that the most important fact about a technology isn't what it does, it's who it does it for, and who it does it to.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI