> I honestly don't think a lot of executives even know how much they're shooting themselves in the foot because they seem unable to think beyond the first order.

It's just so depressing. You see Microsoft and Google's CEOs being completely reckless with investment & the economy. And it's just ... HAVE THEY NOT LOOKED INTO A MIRROR? DO THEY NOT REALIZE THEY ARE THE FALL GUYS?!

Nevermind how the vast majority of major CEOs can't even run a business anymore. An old boys club of morons running the entire economy.

> And they could ensure through that advocacy for labor that we see the happiest ending with respect to rolling out LLMs.

It's just more of the same old "Software dev doesn't need unions". The top 1% always think they're pointless because they made it without unions.

> Unfortunately I don't really believe labor has much teeth anymore, and tech will wake up too late to do anything about it.

Amusingly, I hold the opposite sentiment.

Labor isn't going anywhere. These executives and managers can barely tie their own shoelaces. Big Tech and the current startup scene are laughably dysfunctional.

The moment the economic recession really starts to set in, everyone's gonna try to cut down their SaaS spending. Then, the days of being able to shit out some (AI or not) slop and charge double price will be well and truly over.

Once software firms have to compete on quality again, labor is going to be more important than ever.

AI may not even be meaningfully involved in software dev. To break even at the API prices would require charging on the order of 1-2 thousand dollars, per month, per seat. Factoring in long term training costs will will make that several times worse.

... Before we consider that we're probably heading into an oil crisis making energy and computer hardware much more expensive.

I doubt employers are going to pay the $10,000/month/seat required to make AI profitable for everyone in the supply chain. Certainly not during the worst recession this side of WWII.