That software can’t be free and neither can the design be free, otherwise there is no motivation to create it. Want a cool house? We’re looking at an explosion in design options and variety, an explosion in novel materials and construction methods. Cheap it cannot be, though. Look at the supply chain required to make that cool house possible. They’re not slaves.
What does an AI care for profit?
You are still assuming that there will be people involved in the supply chain or even the code writing on the software.
I’m not. Automation from beginning to end... That is where the author of the article sees things going and I agree with him. Once that genie is let out of the bottle, it will happen no matter how much the large corporations, governments, and change resistant may not want it to.
Some forms of work will survive — entertainment, sports, journalism, story-telling, boutique farming, law enforcement, travel and hospitality, and other things that a robot can’t do (that list will get smaller and smaller as time goes on) or that humans will want to do (write, paint, act, play, travel, work with the soil, craft their own ____). The motive for doing those things will be different though — a “want to” model instead of a “have to” model.