The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of #AI productivity gains
- stock go up
There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting.
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"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)
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in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov • • •Thanks to @CyberneticForests @richburroughs @davidgerard @jenniferplusplus @tante @jasongorman @iris_meredith and everyone else not yet on Fedi for the writing and ideas in this week's Product Picnic.
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in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov • • •- Getting wet feet because crucial systems like keycards are no longer administrated.
- Hiring back
- repeat
They tried this nonesense on me recently.
Morten
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in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov • • •Maybe it was simply someone trying to argue like you that the AI explanation was a smokescreen. I came across this article just now.
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in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov • • •I've noticed that for some reason the people who spend the most time performing anilingus for the boss are the ones that get to stick around the longest. Get to hang out through a pump and dump.
I'm always in the first group told to fuck off. :)