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The Heterarchy and the Hierarchy in Large Language Models

Contrasting the world view of the power elite with the values of the working class

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Mackenzie Andersen
Jul 29, 2025
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We are living in a moment when AI is changing the world of work at a remarkably fast pace. At the same time, the Trump administration is transforming the nation and the global world order.

An interesting perspective about what is going down- or up- is found in this Medium article:

THE GREAT RESTRUCTURING

AI is Creating a Power Vacuum. This is Who Will Fill It.

Power isn’t disappearing — it’s just changing hands.

Samuel Z. Alemayehu

My favorite line from the article is”

These are the constructors. And they don’t need permission.

By constructors, the author means the people who are constructing the new order in response to the collapse of the old order..

It can be anybody.

The Senior Developer Ghetto: How We Created a Glass Ceiling Made of AI & Legacy Code, a Medium post by Krzyś, is an in-depth assessment of changes in the rules of employment in the coding industry.

I kept on digging… and while researching that piece, I discovered something more disturbing: we’re not just…

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