Comment on The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More like the AI rationalized collapse of the industry.
The cuts largely have nothing at all to do with AI, but it makes for a very good narrative to spin at investors.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Particularly for the investors in AI companies. AI is useful. I use it a lot, but all of this shit they put out about what if AI’s take over the world or how we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with 90% unemployment is science-fiction marketing.
It’s not going to take over the world. It’s not going to put artists out of work—not once consumers take in the AI-generated results.
It’s sure as fuck not putting software devs out of work on any kind of scale. It makes me a bit more productive, but not enough to replace a productive co-worker.
On the other hand, I’ve had team members who would boost overall team productivity by getting fired before LLMs.