This Reddit post on the /r/accelerate subreddit has me convinced my post from last night was me still being a step behind on how far ahead I am thinking in regard to the true impact of AI technology, if it really takes off.
I’m just going to quote it here entirely.
Why does half this sub sound like scared Boomers LARPing as accelerationists?
One of the top posts of the week on this sub—TOP POSTS—is literally titled:
"What's the actual future for coders?"
Are you fucking kidding me?
What part of "e/acc" do you not understand? You're not an accelerationist. You're a nervous office drone with a Discord addiction and a fetish for sounding edgy while desperately praying this thing doesn't eat your job too fast. You're not asking in good faith. You're LARPing. You're doomposting with extra steps.
I don't know if it's cowardice or just midwit brain fog, but there's this creeping vibe in this sub—and all over so-called e/acc Twitter—where people are using accelerationist aesthetics to soft-launch their real question, which is:
"I'm not a doomer, but like… are we doomed? :pleading_face:"
Get the fuck out of here.
Acceleration means annihilation. It means extinction of the known. It means goodbye coders, goodbye managers, goodbye legacy institutions, goodbye biology. You're not supposed to be asking "What's the job market gonna look like?" That's what you ask your underpaid bootcamp mentor on Career Day. That's what you ask when you still think this is about GPT-4 plugins and resume tweaks.
This isn't a TED Talk. This isn't Hacker News. This is accelerationism—the full detonation of human structure. Not some polite phase shift. Not some "skills gap" or "upskilling challenge." We're not optimizing you, we're vaporizing you.
So no, the "actual" future for coders isn't some cozy AGI-collab co-pilot UBI utopia. The "actual" future is that coding doesn't exist. Jobs don't exist. You don't exist. There is no scarcity. There is no mortality. There is no fucking LinkedIn career arc. There is light. There is void. There is speed.
If you don't love that, if you're not screaming into the singularity like a starchild with a deathwish and a rocketship, then you're not e/acc. You're just another midwit in fake glasses doomscrolling job loss stats with a biomechanical skin suit on.
Take it off. Or log out. And Yeah. I DID write this with ChatGPT, as EVERYTHING should be written with.