AI give employers immense leverage - by threading with AI layoffs they can exploit workers and in the current job market many have nowhere to go.

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bdcravens an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Scarier than that is the idea of replacing you with someone far cheaper who can drive the AI.

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iugtmkbdfil834 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

:D As a person who can do both ( and keeps logs of various interesting mishaps in our little corner of the universe ), neither is easy to do well, both require skill and, well, current literacy rates don't exactly make me optimistic.

edit: It is actually kinda funny. One would think that if we would embrace the full spectrum now, we could have the best of both worlds ( logic and language side by side solving humanity's problems ).

edit: conditional syntax

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pixl97 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

Just remember, it's not how good you are at your job, it's how hungry the person on your way to work is that's willing to split open your head and steal your wallet.

	▲	iugtmkbdfil834 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Trust me, the concept of social insurance is not lost on me. Frankly, the fact that we are running into this without considering likely outcomes ( or worse, considering it and plunging without relevant ways to keep people from going crazy ) is.. annoying to me. It shows me our leadership is.. not great.

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tonyedgecombe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, all those losers in the office that couldn't find their way out of a paper bag suddenly look as productive as you do.

	▲	KeplerBoy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They actually don't. A lot of people still have no clue how to drive these tools.

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logicchains an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

AI also gives employees much more leverage than before, as they no longer need a large team to compete with BigCos at knowledge work. It's never been cheaper to start a software business.

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trollbridge an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The skillset needed to be a productive employee who is, say, a programmer is not the same at all as the skillset to run an entire business.

For example, skills with sales are far more important than actual software engineering.

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iugtmkbdfil834 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

Sales and, shudders, marketing. I am not joking. As much as I hate to say it, my personal opinion is that this is the 'safe' spot now.

	▲	otikik 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		AI is definetly taking a big portion of the marketing budget as well. Just today I was served a clearly AI-generated Halloween ad for Coca-Cola.

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soon_to_be_sb an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It's never been cheaper to start a software business.

99.99% of software business is marketing..lol

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debazel an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The side effect of this is also that the value of software itself has never been lower, so starting a new software business isn't very attractive in today's market.

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causal an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have been pondering whether I am a fool to continue to go it as an employee in the age of AI.

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Buttons840 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder how much companies would pay people to NOT replicate their products. Like, if I'm just hacking around with my LLM, and am approaching a near 100% drop-in replacement for the entire Atlassian suite--how much would they pay me to NOT do that? Is that worth 1 livable wage to them?

There's an alternate employment arrangement...

	▲	causal 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The install base is worth way more than the software

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flir an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was never the coding that was hard, it was always the marketing.

	▲	prmph 28 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The coding is hard, unless by coding you mean slapping together CRUD forms. Many businesses are undone or fail to grow properly by neglecting this. This refrain that everything about starting a software business is hard except the coding needs to die. If the coding was nothing, every good marketing guy could go solo and start large software businesses. It does not happen. You mostly see successful technical founders, or usually a marriage of technical and business cofounders. Finding a fit between the viable business opportunities and the tech to address it is what's what, and requires several skills: technical, marketing, communication, product design, etc.
	▲	jaynetics an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		At least for us dev types.
	▲	random_cat_8745 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		and infrastructure, it can be costly

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esseph an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Might be just as bad, possibly worse, if you aren't BigCo.

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gosub100 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Cheaper now that they are running AI services at a loss.