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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thank you for giving us a great example of how to appropriately use AI: turning a long comment with no line breaks into a blog post summarizing the comment.

Now I just need to pass your comment into ChatGPT to get a short summary.

Edit: I asked for a one-sentence summary of it and this is what I got:

The comment expresses deep frustration with modern technology, society, government, and politics, calling for radical change and greater individual skepticism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

In fact, when you think about it even a single sentence is longer than necessary. I asked ChatGPT for a one-word summary and it came up with: "disillusionment".