Apparently TeamSystem here in Europe is citing AI among the reasons for reducing its weekly working hours from 36 to 32, without change to the employees salary.
So you get Friday off and get paid the same. That’s how technological progress is supposed to work.
It’s been shown many times that working 4 days a week can have same work output at 5 days.
So they will probably get the same output. But not because of AI.
Insert world smallest violin
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E: also happy cake day!
We can go smaller
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The fact that it has strings makes me wonder if it’s actually real.
Ah, made in Blender.
https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/y44bwr/tried_to_replicate_the_look_of_an_electron/
string theory
ITT ‘get hired back for more’.
That wasn’t the goal, it was always hire someone else for less later while making this quarters financials look good and workers more desperate and fungible. Sucks for long term viability and institutional knowledge, but shareholders are happy now, C-suite gets bonuses, AI is just this years excuse. Just late stage capitalism working as expected.
Right, know of at least one new grad that was looking for a job for a bit and after some months got hired for some company leveraging LLMs and was mentioning how they were on the companies “top AI users!”, which managers liked. The only thing I could think of was how they would be seen as a scapegoat once the costs started to increase and they could find themselves with the people already looking for a job with more experience due to “AI” lay offs.
This is not new. Went through the same thing when employers were offshoring development to low wage countries. Some people in the management chain were so up on that, they joked we were all going to get fired. But I had seen the code. It wasn’t long before they were coming to me to get it fixed because it was their ass if they couldn’t get it sorted. My superpower was untangling Bangalore Spaghetti Code.
At a previous employer they had actually good intentions with offshoring. Senior developers tended to be bound with maintenace of projects they had worked on over the years and the ranks couldn’t be filled up fast enough to take over. Management wanted the most experienced developers to be availlable for new projects, so they decided to offshore some of the legacy maintenance to India. Didn’t work out, though. The Indian company would throw ten people at things one of us would’ve done and they still managed to mess things up in major ways. My favorite memory is when they replaced a for loop with an if statement. Now, one could argue, that an if statement without an else branch is a special case of a for loop with one iteration … but, this was not that 😅 Seniors ended up spending even more time on legacy projects to fix the crap the Indians did.
Its a really great market for picking up talent if your company isn’t currently suffering AI psychosis. You don’t have to use talent scouts or anything else expensive, your competitors are just laying off their top engineers who previously you had no chance of getting and they aren’t even doing it out of necessity.
Fuck 'em. I hope all the people they fired got pay raises elsewhere and will never come back.
So long, meat bags!
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Hello, meat bags!
Good. I hope they lose everything
Yeah, I’m sure the customers weren’t happy either when their friendly, helpful PoC was suddenly replaced with a clanker that has the intellect of a rotten potato, likely at a time when everyone was still struggling to hold shit together as it was.