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The Grimdark Future that is Generative AI (blog.magosomni.com)
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Long time lurker, first time poster. Don't know what it's been with my job but spurred this rant.

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[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

So which is it? Are developers 55% more productive, or are they losing 20% of their time to inefficiencies and burning out at record rates?

The answer: executives are measuring—and reporting—what makes their stock price rise, not what’s actually happening on the ground.

Or if you want to get slightly more conspiratorial: the execs are all buying shares in OpenAI, Nvidia, and the like - so now they're more interested in ordering people to use LLM tools so that these stocks rise in price, even if it means sabotaging their own company.

this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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