One of the things about AI boosterism and by extension the whole Silicon Valley mindset is that it elevates ‘building things’ as the only worthy human act. It isn’t. You and I and the whole of humanity spend most of our time using and _maintaining_ things. Whether it’s doing the laundry or cooking dinner or sewing a button back on. Or using a template to revise a report. Or being the workers who make the accountable decisions to keep things going. This is what human working life is.
Even in the world of computer touching: how much value and status accrues to people who make Cool New Things as against the people who simply maintain whatever package or application keeps existing things running? Which actually has the most social, not even to think about economic, value?
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