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millermtoday at 1:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, I have dropped out of the tech biz completely. I'm unemployed and kind of screwed now. I couldn't take it anymore. I used to work with intellectuals and thinkers. This is why I was in the industry for 20+ years. I liked the stimulation. Communication with humans is dead in the workplace. Now it's just a bunch of mindless automatons asking AI. No thinking about the problems at hand. No interest in understanding the solutions. It's all just "get it done as fast as possible." I refuse to work in that environment. Tech people are becoming about as skill-leveled as a fast food worker's level of training. Just pressing buttons on a screen as the screen tells the to press them. It's a meaningless existence to sit there an be forced to communicate with f'n AI models. No thanks. All you AI bros can have it. We'll see how useless you are in a few years when you realize you know absolutely nothing and couldn't work yourself out of a paper bag without AI guiding you.


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tevlitoday at 8:59 PM

For me, It kind of feels like a betrayal. Like I joined this line of work to be around intellectuals all day and work on interesting problems; so it feels weird to discover that most "fellow intellectuals" didn't really care about the work or the process and will just use any tool at all to generate plausible sounding solutions to a problem and wont want to give anything else a second thought.