Is this an attempt to conflate... Negative AI speculation with racism and misogyny? Yes this technology could be used to reduce the need for human labor. Technology usually isn't actually used in that way and instead just used to concentrate wealth. That's what's being discussed here.
The issues you are bringing up have much more to do with the discriminatory practice of forcing particular demographics to do the menial labor and what conditions they are made to work in. Also an important discussion, but mostly orthogonal to the topic of AI making software devs more efficient.
No, quite the contrary, it's to conflate hype around AI with racism and misogyny.
The idea that AI is going to replace humans is anti-human rubbish. You're basically saying humans are shit and we don't need them. That's why tech companys are going to be laying people off.
The fact is, it is tech CEO's who are going to be out of work, as their business models are failures and society are going to realise it and move on.
We've been four months without the world being in thrall to mass-hysteria about something from silicon valley. Better gin up the next ridiculous hype train.
Meanwhile, the job of a developer now is basically the same as it was 15 years ago, 30 years ago, or even 45 years ago. And the only way we can imagine an end to their "slavery" (okay, not slavery, but meaningless toil on the hairbrained fantasies of well-financed frat-boys) is to turn around and tell them "you are nothing more than a machine." Just as tech bro's now condescend to cleaning staff by telling them they'll be replaced by "Suckio" - silicon valley's new AI vacuum cleaner. All the time, lacking any insight or sense of irony, that LLM's are much better suited to replacing the jobs of CEO's.. producing endless puffery that lacks factual merit. Cleaning is the last job the AI's will take.
The issues you are bringing up have much more to do with the discriminatory practice of forcing particular demographics to do the menial labor and what conditions they are made to work in. Also an important discussion, but mostly orthogonal to the topic of AI making software devs more efficient.