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Inside: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-05 13:02:25
Cory Doctorow
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What is missing from the kids’ internet?
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Pluralistic: 05 Aug 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-04 14:25:45
Cory Doctorow
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Much more honest way to frame #AI
"AI is only secondarily a technological phenomenon; it is primarily a financial phenomenon, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment capital in search of a return.
"The return on that capital only comes from one place: workers' wages."
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