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chocolate dashing sandwich telephone
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peach headpube
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diverse opaque personal credit line
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no one wants to work anymore afaik
Mentally Impaired Old Irish Cottage Gay Wizard
  02/18/26
People think "AI is going to take everyone's jobs,"...
appetizing pink house
  02/18/26
i think this is true
chocolate dashing sandwich telephone
  02/18/26
All one has to do is look around and see it. It's true acros...
appetizing pink house
  02/18/26
lol 180. this is correct. I think noone wants to say it out ...
diverse opaque personal credit line
  02/18/26
we still Complete projects, but, uh, yeah exactly like that
glittery black heaven half-breed
  02/18/26
Keynes thought we'd reduce the workweek to 15 hours. This is...
appetizing pink house
  02/19/26
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glittery black heaven half-breed
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Concupiscible station liquid oxygen
  02/18/26
well the good news is in five years everyone will be working...
Dun Associate
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very tactful international law enforcement agency
  02/18/26
Is that really "worse" than routing prompts in a s...
diverse opaque personal credit line
  02/18/26
Yeah I'm comparing it to what I did in the pre-AI world. I w...
Dun Associate
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age / nw?
chocolate dashing sandwich telephone
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diverse opaque personal credit line
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amber swashbuckling nibblets
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Something else I think we will see is a reallocation of sala...
appetizing pink house
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Did you major in liberal arts? Or Engineering? The Baumol ef...
contagious bat shit crazy puppy
  02/18/26
white collar jobs have been all women for 15 years. blue col...
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Date: February 18th, 2026 2:48 PM
Author: chocolate dashing sandwich telephone



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:02 PM
Author: peach headpube



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:02 PM
Author: diverse opaque personal credit line



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:03 PM
Author: Mentally Impaired Old Irish Cottage Gay Wizard

no one wants to work anymore afaik

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:09 PM
Author: appetizing pink house

People think "AI is going to take everyone's jobs," but in reality it's just going to further make work a series of tasks where you manage software and have nothing else to do in between that isn't total theater. People sense this on a deep level and are checking the fuck out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836034&forum_id=2...id.#49678373)



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:12 PM
Author: chocolate dashing sandwich telephone

i think this is true

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: appetizing pink house

All one has to do is look around and see it. It's true across almost all white collar fields, IMO. Comes out in strange ways, sometimes. But there is an underlying malaise.

A sort of "is this it, do I just take in data to feed into a 'data lake' and then press some keys for another software program that taps into that 'data lake' and then check over a pre-written by AI email before hitting send and then go on endless Zooms to rehash work done by a number of machines that I 'oversee' while pretending the meetings matter?"

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:27 PM
Author: diverse opaque personal credit line

lol 180. this is correct. I think noone wants to say it out loud because a lot of modern work is already theater, but also everyone knows they are about to just become a glorified api wrapper in a slack channel

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Date: February 18th, 2026 10:49 PM
Author: glittery black heaven half-breed

we still Complete projects, but, uh, yeah exactly like that

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Date: February 19th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: appetizing pink house

Keynes thought we'd reduce the workweek to 15 hours. This is basically what has happened, but people are forced to do Performative Work. It's nuts.

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Date: February 20th, 2026 8:47 AM
Author: glittery black heaven half-breed



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:14 PM
Author: Concupiscible station liquid oxygen



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:28 PM
Author: Dun Associate

well the good news is in five years everyone will be working at bucees

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:42 PM
Author: very tactful international law enforcement agency



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:45 PM
Author: diverse opaque personal credit line

Is that really "worse" than routing prompts in a slack thread, getting nitpicked by middle management, sitting in zoom calls to "align stakeholders" on work and pretending your oversight is strategic genius?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836034&forum_id=2...id.#49678482)



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:57 PM
Author: Dun Associate

Yeah I'm comparing it to what I did in the pre-AI world. I was never a good coder but I did actually enjoy it, and anyone who was willing to accept the smallest amount of personal responsibility and not just be an autistic asshole could generally find a nice place to work. Being a Prompt Manager will suck ass.

although I don't have kids so I don't really give much of a shit if my income gets sliced in 1/4. I've got enough Stuff at this point even being a poormo by xo standards. but it's not going to be fun for people with actual responsibilities

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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:22 PM
Author: chocolate dashing sandwich telephone

age / nw?

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: diverse opaque personal credit line



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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:24 PM
Author: amber swashbuckling nibblets



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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: appetizing pink house

Something else I think we will see is a reallocation of salaries across companies. In part because technology will allow for much smaller admin headcount, but also because people doing actual work are the ones creating all the actual, non-performative value.

Much ink has been spilled about skilled labor shortages. The WSJ had an article a little while back about how top level technicians at auto repair shops can make good money, but it takes a decade to reach that level. But the "good money" described is like $90,000 a year. Meanwhile some fraud sending "slacks" and talking about output from a handful of SaaS programs over Zoom (while being recorded to train AI) makes $120k and works 10% as much as the person who actually fixes things that we use in the real world.

This will change.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836034&forum_id=2...id.#49678647)



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Date: February 18th, 2026 5:19 PM
Author: contagious bat shit crazy puppy

Did you major in liberal arts? Or Engineering? The Baumol effect is salient imho. Also blue collar jobs have insane oversupply compared to how much they suck because Scumbags and URMs have extremely low GPAs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836034&forum_id=2...id.#49678816)



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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: Useless national shitlib

white collar jobs have been all women for 15 years. blue collar jobs are like 50% illegals now.

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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: excitant cerise locale sound barrier



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:30 PM
Author: diverse opaque personal credit line



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