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pj_mukhyesterday at 9:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

"AI cannot do your job Your boss bought AI to do your job You're fired"

This is true only in the headlines and the loud CEO pronouncements that we for some reason take at face value. In the numbers it's almost more boring than the industrial revolution. A "white collar reshuffling" [1] the industrial revolution was not.

[1]: https://www.hiringlab.org/2026/08/05/q2-labor-market-outlook...


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tbrownawtoday at 2:03 AM

> In the numbers it's almost more boring than the industrial revolution.

Being almost more boring than the thing that caused Malthus to become wrong is quite an accomplishment.

Muromectoday at 12:11 AM

Our CEO generously offered generous 1% yearly salary adjustment to the trade unions, an RTO mandate and a plan to reduce the number of employees by 20% in a few years, despite having record earnings. It's a bluff of course and the unions will dress that clowhouse down a bit, but they weren't so brazen in the years before.