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Both AI enthusiasts and skeptics should tell the complete story by acknowledging AI’s benefits as well as its costs.
Charity says AI is producing genuine gains, including rewrites and the removal of toil, but argues that many people celebrate those gains without recognizing the costs imposed on colleagues. She urges both camps to describe the entire picture because everyone is experiencing the transition together. ✦ AI generated
Charity Majors · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-08-12 · original ↗
“There are some really incredible things happening in software right now, for example, with rewrites and with automating away toil. Not a single person that I’ve talked to would give up using AI. But half of the people are seeing the wins, and they’re not connecting it to the cost, which makes them think that their coworkers are just afraid of getting automated out of existence. So that’s my beg to everyone who listens to this: tell the whole story! Talk about the costs as well. We’re all in it together.”
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- ·AI is producing genuine gains, including rewrites and removing toil.
- ·Those gains can impose costs on colleagues.
- ·Enthusiasts and skeptics should acknowledge benefits and costs.
- ·Everyone is experiencing the transition together.
- ·AI users are seeing wins without connecting them to costs.
- ·That disconnect can make coworkers seem merely afraid.
- ·Charity urges everyone to talk about the costs as well.
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