When I lost my job, I learned to code. Now AI doom mongers are trying to scare me all over again | Tristan Cross

Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable. I’ve learned that’s nonsense

I spent the best part of the 2010s working in new media, which – if you enjoyed being repeatedly laid off and then being inundated with jeering messages inveigling you to “learn to code” because your industry was doomed – was a great big laugh. Eventually, the fun began to wear off and in an act of subversive defiance (or cowardly resignation), …

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