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From the software engineer in the article:
“I think there’s this problem where people are stuck in the old world business mindset of, well, if I can do the same work that 10 developers were doing with one developer, let’s just cut the developer team instead of saying, oh, well, we’ve got a 10 developer team, let’s do 1,000x the work that we were doing before,” K says.
Buddy, there is no “old world business mindset”, this is capitalism as usual. Even IF (big IF), an employer can get 1000x the output, you guys will NOT get 1000x the compensation. This is exploitation
Let’s put this to rest: when productivity boosts are touted as a benefit from using AI, it doesn’t mean shit if you work for someone else (i.e. you don’t really own your work)
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
He lost his job to the capitalist owners cost-cutting measures. AI was stage excuse the used.
If you must, hate people, not the inanimate tools they hide behind. Don’t play into their game.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Also AI is not that useful even in coding, some software departments lie about its use to management to stop harassing them for “not using them enough”.
Even worse is that the web is now flooded with barely useful AI generated slop, including documentations and tutorials.
Retrograde@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I read this in the voice of George Carlin
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
George Carlin having a stroke