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Pluralistic: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (11 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (opens the original)
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My latest Locus column is "Reverse Centaurs," and it sets out to unravel a paradox: how is it that some AI's users describe their experience as a hellish ordeal, while others delight in the ways that AI is changing their lives for the better? https://locusmag.com/2025/09/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/ The answer is contained in the concept of "centaurs" and "reverse centaurs," found in automation theory: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war A "centaur" is
Pluralistic: The difference between “today’s task” and “accretive work” (02 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (opens the original)
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One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's two things*." That's the idea that set me on the path to writing about "reverse centaurs" and AI. I was hearing from experienced programmers whom I knew to be reliable narrators of their own experience who described how AI was letting them write the best code of their lives; and from equally experienced and reliable
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