What Are You, Human?

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1. What Are You, Human? Yegor Bugayenko @ Zerocracy October 9th, 2026
2. 2/13 “The true joy in life is being used for a mighty purpose.” — Bernard Shaw. Man and Superman. London, 1903 October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
3. 3/13 “A man makes himself useful to someone else [...] In this way he acquires a sense of his worth to society—the only possible means of mitigating the universal human feeling of inferiority.” — Alfred Adler. Social Interest: A Challenge to Mandkind. Faber and Faber, 1933 October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
4. 4/13 “Symbolic-analytic services do not enter world commerce as standardized things. Traded instead are the manipulations of symbols—data, words, oral and visual representations.” — Robert Reich. The Work of Nations. Knopf Publishing, 1991 October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
5. 5/13 In February 2026, SemiAnalysis showed that 4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code. October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
6. 6/13 @yegor256 (5.3K followers) I’m top-3 GitHub contributor in China: committers.top. 100% commits made by Claude Code. October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
7. 7/13 Every year LLMs are getting 13 times cheaper. October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
8. 8/13 Soon, humans will be prohibited from touching the code. October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
9. 9/13 “This ‘useless class’ will not merely be unemployed –— it will be unemployable.” — Yuval Noah Harari. The rise of the useless class. TED, 2017 October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
10. 10/13 “What we are confronted with is the prospect of a society of laborers without labor, that is, without the only activity left to them. Surely, nothing could be worse.” — Hannah Arendt. The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, 1958 October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
11. 11/13 In May 2026 Jensen Huang told a graduating class at Carnegie Mellon: ”Electricians, plumbers, iron workers, technicians, builders—this is your time.” October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
12. 12/13 A mortal human is giving an immortal genie the meaning of life. October 9th, 2026 @yegor256
13. 13/13 @yegor256news October 9th, 2026 @yegor256