[heraldgeezer]

I do love that.

My career is built on people not knowing how to Google lmao (IT)

To most people, AI is chatGTP. Maybe Gemini.

Claude? No idea.

VS Code, Cursor, Antigraivity, Claude Code? Blank stares.

Same as when the computer came, some will fall behind. Excel monkeys copy pasting numbers will go, copywriters, written word jobs = already gone. Art for simple images = AI now all done by one person.

Unless you want a Soviet system where jobs are kept to keep people busy.

[csa]

> Unless you want a Soviet system where jobs are kept to keep people busy.

In $big_corp, everyone seems to have penis envy over “head count”, constantly checking whose is bigger.

If you want to see an executive have an existential crisis, ask them how many of those folks are necessary for the org to run.

[heraldgeezer]

Damn you are right... everything equally bad... Poland and the Baltics actually secretly want soviet back...

[notpachet]

> Unless you want a Soviet system where jobs are kept to keep people busy.

There's an argument that even under capitalism, a lot of jobs still only exist in order to keep people busy.

[heraldgeezer]

Damn you are right... everything equally bad... Poland and the Baltics actually secretly want soviet back...

[NoGravitas]

Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber.