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Labor Replacement is a Poison Pill

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Kent Beck
Feb 07, 2026
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I just published publicly that when thinking about the economic value of AI, “replace human labor” is a narrow-minded perspective. It’s worse than that.

I like to work backwards from “the good of society”. Economic success, in my model, is an extremely rough proxy for doing good things for other people, individually & collectively. (Yes, I know this is n…

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