> I’ve seen people driven to tears in this environment right now from stress due to overwork. Everyone in my org was either burnt out or soon to be. And that overwork is from managers demanding more and more without any data to back up exactly how much more is reasonable.
This is just bad management. AI might be the buzzword of the day that comes out of their mouths, but the issue is bad management rather than AI.
Said another way, if it wasn’t AI, it would be something else.
Are all of the items in the long list of something elses in the past and in the future the actual villain here? I don’t think so.
> Then you get these types on HN calling people luddites for having strong opinions and anxieties as if it’s only ever about the technology itself and not the effect it has on actual people
Why are you blaming the tech rather than the source of the problem? Point your finger at the people who are creating the problems — hint, it’s the management and not tools.
AI is just a tool. Just like any tool, it can be used for good or for bad. It can be used skillfully or unskillfully.
Right now, we are certainly in a high variance stage of quality of implementation.
That said, I think AI will do a good job of shining a bright light on the pretenders… it will be much tougher for them to hide.
> in a cutthroat capitalist system.
Unchecked capitalism certainly can take some of the blame here. The problem is that the only system that is better than the current system is almost certainly some other form of capitalism (maybe with some humanity checks and balances).
> That’s exactly the sort of thing that brought the term “tech bro” into the limelight.
Thank you for this. I’m pretty sure that this is the first time I’ve been called a “tech bro” — certainly the first time directly. My friends and family will get a kick out of this, since I have routinely outed tech bros who are more style than substance.
I’m fairly certain that I don’t fall into that category.