AI-Based Coding and Alienation
With or without AI support.Alienation from your own programMarx describes four aspects of alienation. And thus dependent on the mercy of third parties.So will those who are strongly leaning towards AI agents for writing most of their code still be able to maintain their existing codebases which were generated by AI? Will they be able to expand them and implement new features or projects on their own, in case the subscription prices for the most powerful LLMs have become too steep or in case the big AI monopolists will restrict access?
- ▪With or without AI support.Alienation from your own programMarx describes four aspects of alienation.
- ▪And thus dependent on the mercy of third parties.So will those who are strongly leaning towards AI agents for writing most of their code still be able to maintain their existing codebases which were generated by AI?
- ▪Will they be able to expand them and implement new features or projects on their own, in case the subscription prices for the most powerful LLMs have become too steep or in case the big AI monopolists will restrict access?
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| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:00:23 +0000 |
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AI-Based Coding and AlienationApr 16, 2026Karl, senior developer und open source contributor, feels like a stranger in his own codebaseRecently, while asking myself why programming with AI support feels so unsatisfying to me, the term alienation came to my mind.Specifically, I am referring to the theory of alienation by Karl Marx (for those interested: described here in the original ).As soon as I had this thought, I was already tempted to discard it again. Because obviously Marx had something else in mind which is not related to working with code - be it with or without AI.Even at first glance it is obvious that one of the central conditions of Marx’s theory is invalid when it comes to coding: there can be no talk of the worker (here: the programmer) having no direct access to, no…
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