Software development is one of the fields with the least-advanced cultures around labor, as workers have almost no history of organizing, and many coders tend to side much more with management as they've been conditioned to think of themselves as "future founders" rather than being in solidarity with other workers.

The NYT’s Benjamin Mullin, Katie Robertson, and WaPo alum Erik Wemple detailed the dismantling of The Post under Jeff Bezos, who reportedly said, “I don’t care” when told a shift in editorial ideology would alienate subscribers.

Now, you know what word I’m about to say next, right? Unionize. If your workplace can be organized, that’ll be a key strategy for allowing you to fight AI policies you disagree with. .. The Service Employees International Union, which negotiated with Pennsylvania’s governor to create a worker board overseeing the implementation of generative AI in government services.

“I amass bits of knowledge about my loved ones — my sister’s boyfriend published a poem; my friend left her job — as a spectator, in the same way that I might learn about an influencer’s favorite books…”