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>> "Oh no, efficiency will be down and the execs' stock options might not be worth quite as much."

> Translation: employees have to work with someone who is not pulling their weight (always unpleasant) and their own stock based compensation might not be worth quite as much (hurting the income of individual programmers) and the manager has to deal with the hassle of a termination process. So forgive me for having exactly zero sympathy with candidates trying to use AI slop to game the system.

Congratulations, you just got fooled by a cognitive trap! Your prize is getting to be mislead and getting to help mislead others!

Large organizations and other powerful interests are very good at playing games to direct blame away from themselves and direct harm towards sympathetic parties. It's one of the techniques they use to maintain their power and create space to do harmful things that advantage themselves.

In this case, you're getting fooled by having one layer of indirection. In this case, (A) the company sets the policies that cause the harm you're sympathetic to (e.g. putting employees under pressure they feel every bit of dead weight, neglecting things like reasonable training and on-boarding periods so people are "dead weight" if they aren't a perfect fit on day one) in addition to (B) the other policies they set (e.g. an unreasonable demand for a perfect fit) that make job searches a demoralizing slog. That way, you're mislead into blaming the people the company harms with (B) for the hard the company does with (A).