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nelsonfigueroatoday at 7:21 AM3 repliesview on HN

"Fourth, we will not find ourselves working less. Rather, there will be a bimodal outcome: those unable to find a place in the new AI-powered industry will fall out of it entirely, while those that remain are worked harder and harder as they drive automated development systems. Five PRs a week? Hah! Try fifty. Or five hundred."

My experience with AI/LLMs summed up. The baseline expectation got higher. I didn't get any time back. My life didn't become easier.


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9devtoday at 7:24 AM

As it was the case with all productivity catalysts in the past. The Industrial Revolution promised machines would work and we’d get to have leisure time. Instead, it brought 16 hour factory shifts. This will be no different

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frizlabtoday at 8:39 AM

One of the big reasons why I hated AI since day one.

wiseowisetoday at 7:31 AM

Why would it? Who, with a half brain, thought that you’d ever work less?

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