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gk1today at 12:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

> AI tools make great team members even better

This is the predominant (public) talking point. And it’s true.

But along with that: when you have effective people becoming even more effective with AI, it becomes glaringly obvious who the INeffective people are. At which point it becomes hard to justify keeping those people around.

(That often includes people who are otherwise effective but aren’t utilizing agents and are therefore losing their edge.)


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jurgenburgentoday at 12:51 PM

Before AI, it was impossible to measure productivity. Some tried with misguided metrics like lines of code added but that just incentivized writing obtuse code.

What has changed?

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zarzavattoday at 1:24 PM

It's weird to fire people instead of giving them training.

aaa_aaatoday at 12:34 PM

Losing what edge?