Barry.Adams.Axial

GitClear recently analyzed over 211 million lines of code to see what AI is actually doing to our code. The results completely DESTROY the "hyper-productivity" narrative! 1. In 2021, 25% of code changes were refactoring (moving and consolidating code). By 2024, that plummeted to under 10%. Developers aren't taking the time to architect reusable modules anymore; they are just hitting 'Tab' and letting the AI generate another isolated, brute-force function. 2. Commits containing massive blocks of duplicated code skyrocketed by an astounding 800% last year. AI models are trained to predict the next token, not to enforce the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle. When you are building systems with high-stakes logic - like managing timezone conflicts and concurrent reservations for a sports venue booking platform - this kind of duplicated code is exactly how you introduce catastrophic bugs across different files. 3. Almost 8% of all newly added code is now being reverted or heavily revised within just two weeks of being committed. We aren't writing better code; we are just rapidly generating "mistake code" that has to be manually untangled later. Google’s own DORA report backed this up with a brutal metric: For every 25% increase in AI adoption, delivery stability actually decreased by 7.2%. When managing engineering teams at scale, the takeaway becomes glaringly obvious: AI is a phenomenal typing accelerator, but it is an atrocious software architect. Stop measuring developer productivity by how many lines of code were generated this week. Start measuring it by how many lines you didn't have to write because the system was designed correctly the first time. More code is not a feature. It is a liability.

The backlash against AI - generated content is so visceral - expect the "human-authored" certification gain momentum, esp for fiction. authorsguild.org/human-authored/

@NaazShaquiba @devfrom_hyd R

@devfrom_hyd Zero 🥹don't judge

Be honest. How many lines of code did you write yourself today? Not autocomplete. Not AI. Actually wrote.

Who do you think will win the AI race ? - OpenAI - Gemini - Meta AI - Anthropic - Grok

@devfrom_hyd My paycheck would be safe though, if they was no ai

If AI disappeared tomorrow, which part of your workflow would hurt the most?

@ednewtonrex AI has to pay to train, otherwise content makers are treated worthless

The UK's AI minister celebrating the opening of a London office by an AI company that is facing 4 copyright lawsuits, and that media has reported trained on YouTube videos without permission.

AI is trained on human creativity and intelligence, funded by federal research using taxpayer dollars, and powered by data centers built on American land. The success of AI should belong to all of us. It’s time to tax AI and invest in people.

@mcpoole84 @Atticus_of_Oz Tax AI per token and then have a UBI

Am I the only person looking at all the problems in the world and thinking AI is the worst invention ever ? It solves nothing just causes unemployment

@BladeoftheS @mongrelcelt Tax the tokens AI uses to count it work input anf output.

Another thing that we need to do.

@_KarenHao Demand government tax token use by Ai instead of human labour. Pay for social programs with the tax dollars.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world. airesistlist.org

@MatlockMorpheus @shdu11546816 Token tax, ai companies already count tokens and charge, gov can take its cut.

@shdu11546816 The simple solution is to tax all productive autonomous agents, heavily.

My best guess is that AI is going to soon cause a Deflationary Doom Loop due to the Paradox of Thrift. As chatbots become agents, the layoffs will accelerate and spending behavior will rapidly change for many previously high income workers. In macroeconomics, the Paradox of Thrift states that when everyone tries to save money at the same time, aggregate demand plummets, causing businesses to fail, which drives wages down further, forcing people to save even more. The Physical Labor Glut: As millions of software engineers, lawyers, and corporate managers flood the market for physical jobs (plumbing, electrical work, elder care, construction), supply will vastly outstrip demand. The Wage Floor Collapse: Wages for physical labor will probably crash to subsistence levels—just enough to buy calories and a crowded room. Because humans are panicking and hoarding every spare penny, discretionary spending will probably collapse except for the capital class. "Everything becomes cheap and abundant" is a utopian narrative with one major flaw: The employee class spends most of their money on Rent, Transportation, and Food... Intelligence is not the primary bottleneck for physical resources. AI cannot print more land in desirable zip codes, it cannot bend the laws of thermodynamics to make gasoline infinitely efficient, and it cannot materialize calories out of thin air. It's increasingly hard to fathom a future where 2/3 of the population doesn't become useless eaters.

@stats_feed But if you need people to hear the algorithm silently leaves you unread.

70% of people check social media within 10 minutes of waking up. Before coffee. Before the news. Before talking to anyone. The first thing half the planet sees every morning is a feed designed by an algorithm to keep them scrolling. This is the most successful behavioral engineering project in human history. SOURCE: Multiple studies, cited in Cropink social media stats 2026.

@zerohedge Tax the tokens Petition to tax Ai here c.org/BTQSzkKX5J

Google said it has 13 products with over a billion users each and threw out a 3.2 quadrillion monthly token KPI. "Two years ago we were processing 9.7 trillion tokens a month. Last year that grew to 480 trillion tokens. Today that number jumped 7x to over 3.2 quadrillion/month"

@OnodaCapital Tax AI sign my petition c.org/N5RVbGr6rH

This is gonna get so much worse It’s an industry led by historically unpopular people, loudly saying everyone will lose their jobs, during a plutocratic corrupt time

@zerohedge Tax Ai sign at change.org c.org/N5RVbGr6rH

Standard Chartered To Replace "Lower-Value Human Capital" With AI As Meta Layoff D-Day Nears zerohedge.com/markets/standa…

@BamSullivan Tax AI sign at change.org c.org/N5RVbGr6rH

Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs. Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs. Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs. But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."