[einrealist]

I asked myself this question today: Given the AI hype, I wonder whether there will be employers who force their employees to use generative AI. Otherwise employees will be deemed inefficient and be fired.

Employers might believe that not using AI puts them and their investments at a disadvantage, while ignoring the overall quality issues.

[throwaway85995]

If AI provides even a 1% productivity boost, they will, and we'll all be worse off for it when everyone forgets how to code without relying on fallible, proprietary services. Sure, local LLMs are a thing, but they currently are vastly inferior to the cloud offerings, and I don't see the status quo changing any time soon.

We all agree that employers shouldn't be allowed to force the employees to use drugs for short-term productivity boosts. I hope we'll see something similar for AI - it has the potential to be equally damaging to employees in the long term.