alt Hacker News> What happens when there are no more entry-level humans to be promoted to mid-level, and so on?
No business cares about that question, just like the Onceler didn't care how many Truffula trees were left. It's not their problem. Business is business, and business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies, you know.
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astrange • last Tuesday at 11:18 PM
The "business" doesn't care about this, but individual employees care about their job duties, not their business. And some of them do have a job duty where they care about this.
(i.e. this cynical complaint is exactly the opposite of the cynical complaint about managers/directors engaging in empire building.)
disgruntledphd2 • last Wednesday at 8:49 AM
That line always hits hard whenever I read that story to my kids.
It even has a name, tragedy of the commons. I have been saying it constantly for the last few years with all this AI hype over LLM's going on. But with business focus really narrowing down to short time frames, what do you expect