I get where the writer is coming from, but it misses one very important point.

>> If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week.

You are thinking of productivity as "code written". And certainly that part of your job will get more productive.

But that is just something you do when you're not in meetings. (or when you're in a meeting, but the camera is off, and you're not really listening). Your real job is to attend meetings. And unfortunately AI can't help with that (yet).

(I'm not even being sarcastic. Most programmers don't realize that they have been hired to have meetings.)

What it can do is free you up from the pesky code-writing part of your job, freeing you up to attend even more meetings. And this does indeed make management happy because (seriously now) their job is having meetings, and you being "unavailable" (because you know, you want to program) was hindering them in the first place.

So no, you can't have Friday off, but now that you mention it, let's set aside that time for "team building" exercises...

AI definitely helps with attending meetings and writing documents that no one will read (both of which are huge parts of any modern job). The AI notes from any given meeting give you all of the content in 1/10th of the time.