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Just waste it on me, boss. In the long run, I’m cheaper
Another blog post about the study that found 90% of employees were using AI regularly in their work....that totally omits the part about 90% of employees using AI regularly.

The study found that company implementations were failing while people heavily used their own choice LLMs.

If you are not already viewing work as a transfer of wealth and nothing more, nows your time.
That was a random show thought I had a couple days ago:

> We’ve managed to convince the biggest tech companies to invest trillions into tech that doesn’t replace SWEs, rather, a new dev tool at our disposal to make some aspects of our job easier: search and tedious coding tasks, saving us time.

https://fosstodon.org/@erock/115112206590198248

> saving us time

citation needed

Not this again
Cynically, it doesn't matter if AI actually replaces jobs, but as long as the stock market BELIEVES that it does, then it gives companies permission to do layoffs without taking a hit to the stock price.