Yeah. Even if generative AI assisted workers are not as productive as their managers imagine, craven managers will still cut or refuse to hire staff and tell th

Yeah. Even if generative AI assisted workers are not as productive as their managers imagine, craven managers will still cut or refuse to hire staff and tell their employees to just use more AI to get work done. I think many of us on Hacker News underestimate the depths to which middle tier managers will go to appease higher ups. Even in the case where AI productivity is total fiction, that doesn't mean it won't have a huge impact on the workload given to a single worker. All the way back to Pharaoh in the Bible when he is quoted as saying, 'They are relaxing! Let them make bricks without straw!' Hiring reduction doesn't require an entirely real productivity boost. It only requires the MBA and Management Consulting led perception that hiring fewer humans is now the smart thing to do!