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Literally my job is to make software that increases productivity, in a blatantly Taylorist sense, for a segment of business that is almost universally considere
by megaman22 9y ago
Literally my job is to make software that increases productivity, in a blatantly Taylorist sense, for a segment of business that is almost universally considered a cost center. More throughput with less people, and ideally the software enables using the cheapest people possible. I'm tasked with creating metrics that line-managers can use to drive their workers like oarslaves on a corsair galley. In a perfect world, from the business' perspective, I'd utterly replace the people with some conglomeration of AI buzzwords that could do the job at 65% of the efficiency of a human, at less than the cost of one minimum wage salary.