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by flandish 1173 days ago
This is important. Our relationship with those who pay is for labor is indeed “sold” as “do something you love and …” and frankly that does help people over time.

I love coding. Enough that I don’t want to age into being a director/manager, etc.

But what is important to understand is that from the other direction the owners of business only care about profit - they don’t care abt your love for parts of your work, except when they can gaslight and use it to keep you working. For them.

Remember when Dwight Scrute got 13 “employee of the month” awards in a single year because he got 2 in February in lieu of a raise?

That’s what I mean.

AI will be used by owners to either gaslight your love into using it for them, or possible remove what you love to be replaced by AI.

Which, for the record, is not “intelligent” any more than anything else in code.

Anything implemented is either to gaslight our love for this industry for profit, or to replace parts for profit.

It is no surprise at all.