[ryandrake]

I know a lot of late-career people opting out. Just chilling and doing great work as usual, waiting a few years for this all to blow over. The ones who work where AI is mandatory are just setting aside some time every week to do the bare minimum token-spending needed to appease the AI metric gods.

If the AI boosters are wrong, it'll peter out in a bit, and we'll all be back to business as usual. If the AI boosters are right, and "not using AI" makes you unemployable, well, I guess we'll just either pick up the tools or retire.

[bluefirebrand]

I wish I was far enough in my career to make this choice. Unfortunately I am smack in the middle of it, I have a good 20-25 years left.

I wish I could retire and never bother with AI again

[weikju]

> I wish I could retire and never bother with AI again

Don't worry, if AI is going to get as good as they say, all 7.2 billion of us (the 99%) will be forced to retire one way or another.

[bluefirebrand]

Thats exactly what I'm worried about. Or rather the likely bloodshed to follow

[weikju]

> Or rather the likely bloodshed to follow

Yeah that was my "one way or another" allusion...