[OptionOfT]

While that may be true, all the automation that's happening is not making people work less.

Except by firing them, which is absolutely devastating, especially in places with 0 social protection like the USA.

And for other people the workload has actually increased because we're being pushed left and right to use AI to go FASTER, yet over and over we see proof that we need to validate EVERYTHING.

Automation is only useful if we use part of our brain to do something ELSE. Yet as a Software Engineer I cannot do that (full disclosure: I don't mind, I like to engineer and code).

But from a managerial point of view there is this aura of 'AI will solve all our problems', whereas what we're seeing is a deluge of slop where the people producing the slop THINK they're helping, yet they are parasitizing on the time of the people who validate the PRs.

[BosunoB]

Yeah but the tech doesn't end here. Sure, it doesn't make anybody particularly happy that the tech started here. It's kind of a bummer to automate creative labor that gets social esteem so early on.

But that's not the point. Where the tech ends is human-level intelligence that can do any task as well as a human and more cheaply.