Are you a boss or a worker? That's the real divide, for the most part. Bosses love AI - when your job is just sending emails and attending remote meetings, letting LLM write emails for you and summarize meetings is a godsend. Now you can go from doing 4 hours of work a week to 0 hours! And they let you fantasize about finally killing off those annoying workers and replace them with robots that never stop working and never say no.

Workers hate AI, not just because the output is middling slop forced on them from the top but because the message from the top is clear - the goal is mass unemployment and concentration of wealth by the elite unseen by humanity since the year 1789 in France.

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Workaccount2 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm both, I have a day job and run a side business as well. My partner has her own business (full time) and uses AI heavily too.

None of these are tech jobs, but we both have used AI to avoid paying for expensive bloated software.

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FeepingCreature 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm a worker, I love AI and all my coworkers love AI.

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joquarky 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same here, I just limit my use of genAI to writing functions (and general brainstorming).

I only use the standard "chat" web interface, no agents.

I still glue everything else together myself. LLMs enhance my experience tremendously and I still know what's going on in the code.

I think the move to agents is where people are becoming disconnected from what they're creating and then that becomes the source of all this controversy.

	▲	CerryuDu 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I still glue everything else together myself. This is the core difference. Just "gluing things together" satisfies you. It's unacceptable to me. You don't want to own your code at the level that I want to own mine at.

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realmadludite 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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