What Patrick McKenzie thinks about AI and jobs

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Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11. Ran the small software business Bingo Card Creator and Starfighter, then worked at Stripe; writes about the mechanics of money at Bits about Money and wrote for years at Kalzumeus about careers, negotiation and the business of software.

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28 Oct 2011

Our readingCalling yourself a programmer marks you as a cost to be eliminated; describe yourself instead by the revenue you raised or the costs you cut.

Their wordsIf you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired.

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