[sydbarrett74]

AI provides cover to lay people off, or else commit constructive dismissal.

[lotsofpulp]

Constructive dismissal and layoffs are mutually exclusive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

>In employment law, constructive dismissal occurs when an employee resigns due to the employer creating a hostile work environment.

No employee is resigning when an employer tells the employee they are terminated due to AI replacing them.

[heavyset_go]

AI is what you tell the board/investors is the reason for layoffs and attrition.

Layoffs and attrition happen for reasons that are not positive, AI provides a positive spin.

[lmm]

> No employee is resigning when an employer tells the employee they are terminated due to AI replacing them.

No, but some are resigning when they're told their bonus is being cut because they didn't use enough AI.

[TheDong]

Using AI makes me want to resign from life, it removes all the fun and joy from coding.

I absolutely will resign if my job becomes 100% generating and reviewing AI generated slop, having to review my coworker's AI slop has already made my job way less fun.

[bluefirebrand]

Yeah, I'm feeling this. I'm almost 40 and I'm really not interested in continuing the AI slop treadmill that I'm seeing stretching before me

I am my own agent in the world. I don't get any satisfaction from using AI to do my work and offloading my responsibility and my skills to a computer. Computers are tools for me to use, not partners or subordinates

Strongly thinking about going back to school to retrain into something else aside from software. The only thing stopping me at the moment is that I think AI is making every industry and job similarly stupid and fruitless right now so changing lanes will still land me in the "AI pilot" career path

What a shitty time to be alive. I used to love technology. Now I'm coming to loathe it. It is diminishing what it means to be human

[sydbarrett74]

Hence the ‘or else’ qualifier.

[zippyman55]

Agreed! The people who did not work hard but were kept employed ala “bullshit work” are being removed.

[bravetraveler]

Eh, I have plenty of "bullshit work". Only that, actually, for the foreseeable future.

Building clusters six servers at a time... that last the order of weeks, appeasing "stakeholders" that are closer to steaks.

Whole lot of empty movement and minds behind these 'investments'. FTE that amounts to contracted, disposed, labor to support The Hype.

[zippyman55]

But that is still highly skilled BS work, and I would not call it BS work. What i was referring to was the class of work individuals do that someone off the street can be trained in thirty minutes. Building a cluster is more challenging. Not sure why I picked up three down votes. Must have touched a nerve!

[bravetraveler]

It's pretty BS, trust me! The work is automated to the point that it takes more time to hand off/hand in. Very performative.

We could get this to the point of taking people off the street/putting them to task... but instead, we've collectively found it more valuable to push the spreadsheet along a few cells at a time, together.

Perhaps it's mistaken to localize the BS; it's shared. Soft and tends to spread.