alt Hacker News> AI just means more output will be expected of you, and they'll keep pushing you to work as hard as you can.
That’s a bit too cynical for me. After all, yes, your boss is not paying you for sipping lattes, but for producing value for the company. If there is a tool that maximises your output, why wouldn’t he want you to use that to great efficiency?
Put differently, would a carpenter shop accept employees rejecting the power saw in favour of a hand saw to retain their artisanal capability?
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recursive • today at 12:38 AM
If the power saw ran itself without any oversight, the carpenter shop wouldn't accept any type of employees.
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> That’s a bit too cynical for me. After all, yes, your boss is not paying you for sipping lattes, but for producing value for the company. If there is a tool that maximises your output, why wouldn’t he want you to use that to great efficiency?
Sitting in a cafe enjoying a latte is not "producing value for the company." If having "5 agents to generate a new SAAS-product" matches your non-AI capacity and gives you enough free time to relax in a cafe, he's going to want to you run 50 agents generating 5 new SAAS products, until you hit your capacity.
If he doesn't need 5 new SAAS products, just one, then he's going to fire you or other members of your team.
Think of it this way: you're a piece of equipment to your boss, and every moment he lets you sit idle (on the clock) is money lost. He wants to run that piece of equipment as hard as he can, to maximize his profit.
That's labor under capitalism.