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Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
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Just kinda curious, do tech workers even like this?
Like imagine if you’re someone really into building the future and you find you’re great at the software side. But now all of it is AI slop, overglorified MIC drivel, or digital landlording.
Ime, software devs are split between "this shit sucks so bad I'm going to become a goose farmer" and "it automates some stuff" through to tech bros who don't seem to care how capable it is so long as they can label themselves a Founder and get VC money. Tech managers also range from "meh" to "it automates Jira ticket creation and I can look stuff up real easy". Tech execs are uniformly the dumbest motherfuckers to ever live and universally adore AI for its worker-eliminating powers. They don't live anywhere near the actual work and can't see how much effort is blown on making AI do things that are half as good as a junior dev. I cannot overstate how much executive brains are a fine slurry, unable to conceptualize that the tech is only good at making emails into the perfect corporate word salad. But that's all their jobs are, producing empty paragraphs of word salad justifying their atrocious decisionmaking, so they apply the same "understanding" to all jobs.
It's like how those NFT freaks were categorically unable to understand why it's not a good idea to put home deeds and medical records on the block chain.
Take it from someone who took some coding classes in college. I’ve found many CS majors to actually be some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and it pisses me off their brilliance is wasted on tech bros.
Like imagine just how much cooler Microsoft, Google, and Tesla would be if every last chud fucker got out of the way.
I'm a software developer at a company that's gone whole hog for LLMs. My coworkers are cool. Even the managers are alright, up through to the directors who seem to have a moderately realistic view of the thing as "C-suite says jump, we ask how high" and are making the most of it. The VPs and C-suite are broadly disrespected in side channels like off-work group chats, and even at work they're getting more and more friction when they try and push their usual BS since everyone's morale is especially down after layoff waves.
This, absolutely this. I work as a software engineer for a major company and it is miserable right now. The top level management are so convinced that most junior devs are no longer needed. Our department has been downsized multiple times in the last two years, IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR DEPARTMENT WIDE PROJECT, and yet, they are confused why the project is struggling to meet its deadlines. Most of us left have been working what used to be the job of 2 or 3 devs. The only reason I haven't left before now is that I had major personal issues going on in my life that took up most of my free time and I needed to have a "stable" source of income. Now that that is all resolved I plan on jumping ship and watching it burn from the outside.
I don't care if it ever gets good though, the cost to human labor and to the environment will forever make AI a non starter for me. I think that last point is what worries me most about the way people talk about it at work, no one ever talks about environment cost. Honestly, rarely do people except for a handful of devs I am personal friends with ever talk about the labor cost.
Some true believers, some haters, and lots of scared people in the middle