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Behold the future of programming
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I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don't distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren't enough.
I'm old enough to remember cubicles that had noise absorbing walls. Idk who thought open offices with hard reflecting surfaces was a good idea.
Managers who thought a panopticon was the best way to organize.
In a previous job, the manager had a low horizontal slit window in his office that allowed him to watch everybody in the open office from a seating position.
Foucault intensifies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
Best way to surveil
Density.
Meeting rooms are there for a reason. And if there are not enough, good excuse to not go to the office
This is why WFH is the way