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It is kinder than the alternative, which is to just keep raising expectations and letting people get walloped out of the blue.

Lots of companies otherwise basically let employees miss the train and then lay them off for it and then they are stuck searching for a job with no modern skills.

To me this is the warning. AI may or may not pan out, but if it does, you don’t get to say you were blindsided.

No. It's like mandating people use Notepad.exe. Why bother to specify the tools used?
Linus Torvalds said "AI is a tool"

I derive this analogy where AI is like code editor with advanced auto suggestions feature.

How far you are pushed to use by your organisation is going to break every seniors patience.

AI hype is trying blurring between blue collar and white collar people. In reality the line will exists and it will broaden.

I think Goodhart's law applies here.

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”