That wasn’t the goal, it was always hire someone else for less later while making this quarters financials look good and workers more desperate and fungible. Sucks for long term viability and institutional knowledge, but shareholders are happy now, C-suite gets bonuses, AI is just this years excuse. Just late stage capitalism working as expected.
Right, know of at least one new grad that was looking for a job for a bit and after some months got hired for some company leveraging LLMs and was mentioning how they were on the companies “top AI users!”, which managers liked. The only thing I could think of was how they would be seen as a scapegoat once the costs started to increase and they could find themselves with the people already looking for a job with more experience due to “AI” lay offs.
ITT ‘get hired back for more’.
That wasn’t the goal, it was always hire someone else for less later while making this quarters financials look good and workers more desperate and fungible. Sucks for long term viability and institutional knowledge, but shareholders are happy now, C-suite gets bonuses, AI is just this years excuse. Just late stage capitalism working as expected.
Right, know of at least one new grad that was looking for a job for a bit and after some months got hired for some company leveraging LLMs and was mentioning how they were on the companies “top AI users!”, which managers liked. The only thing I could think of was how they would be seen as a scapegoat once the costs started to increase and they could find themselves with the people already looking for a job with more experience due to “AI” lay offs.