This is what my job is becoming. The suits (and seemingly most of my coworkers) are excited that this is becoming the job. We don't work 12 hour days, and the use of LLMs/agentic "AI" hasn't ramped up to that level yet, but my employer is clearly gunning for that. They finalized a contract with Anslopic recently and even had one of their goons give a keynote speech at a company event with vibe-generated powerpoint slides, and they're rolling out the Clod Code licenses devs will be mandated to use.

We are so going to become a bunch of easily replaceable deskilled husks. Employers soon won't need high salaries, good benefits, and WFH to entice us. Soon, the software engineer will be making as much as the fry cook.

This is the story of a man named Stanley

Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was Employee Number 427.

Employee Number 427's job was simple.

He sat at his desk in Room 427, and he pushed buttons on a keyboard.

Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order.

This is what Employee 427 did every day, of every month, of every year

And although others might have considered it soul-rending, Stanley relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job.

And Stanley was happy.

And then one day, something very peculiar happened, something that would forever change Stanley, something he would never quite forget.

He had been at his desk for nearly an hour, when he realized that not one single order had arrived on the monitor for him to follow.

No one had showed up to give him instructions, call a meeting, or even say "Hi."

Never in all of his years at the company has this happened, this complete isolation.

Something was very clearly wrong.

Shocked, frozen solid, Stanley found himself unable to move for the longest time.

But as he came to his wits and regained his senses, he got up from his desk, and stepped out of his office.

As a trans woman, i know a lot of girls and nonbinary beings who work in tech and almost all of them loathe the push towards AI (the few that don't are extremely sus, they are also the only ones making bank). It has gotten so bad that one of them recently changed to a different career because it couldn't stand this anymore. Like, it was neck-deep in burnout so bad it regularly had to take sick leave.

The current annoying trend is the push to do engineering CAD using AI prompts. There are a lot of problems with that idea, the most major one being the apparent confusing between "3D modeling" and "Computer Aided Design". But the other issues is that it's just not very fun... I like doing that design work, and it's not actually a major bottleneck to my work throughput.

The longer this lasts, the longer I believe that these LLM companies can continue operating at a massive loss. Idk I have no faith in anything anymore and almost everything seems fake

They’re probably going to get bailed out by Trump when push comes to shove, who am I kidding

Yeah this shit blows.

@Elon_Musk@hexbear.net bravo! Perfect response to this loser engineer.