The new workplace trend is not employee friendly. A growing number of companies are using AI to streamline operations, cut costs and jobs, to boost productivity.
We aren’t going to all lose our jobs because AI can do them better.
We’re going to all lose our jobs when the soggy bottom falls out of the stock market once the AI bubble pops, because AI companies- that have made no profit but burned through billions in venture capital- are being valued based on the assumption that they will be able to achieve infinite productivity Real Soon Now by inventing the artificial superintelligence that can put everyone out of a job.
A small silver lining is for all the experienced software engineers who will be needed to rewrite from scratch all the hopelessly broken slop-compomised vibecodebases for all the companies that sold their cow for magic beans out of fomo. I think it will be comparable to the late 90s hiring push to fix the Y2k bug.
We aren’t going to all lose our jobs because AI can do them better.
We’re going to all lose our jobs when the soggy bottom falls out of the stock market once the AI bubble pops, because AI companies- that have made no profit but burned through billions in venture capital- are being valued based on the assumption that they will be able to achieve infinite productivity Real Soon Now by inventing the artificial superintelligence that can put everyone out of a job.
A small silver lining is for all the experienced software engineers who will be needed to rewrite from scratch all the hopelessly broken slop-compomised vibecodebases for all the companies that sold their cow for magic beans out of fomo. I think it will be comparable to the late 90s hiring push to fix the Y2k bug.