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This is just an admission you don't know where work comes from. Like you think there's a fixed size of pie of work. If the company has a legal monopoly that pr
by jalapenos 1y ago
This is just an admission you don't know where work comes from. Like you think there's a fixed size of pie of work.
If the company has a legal monopoly that prevents competition, sure. Otherwise, unless they're dumb and want to risk the other two leaving, they'll task all 4 of them to use the AI to accomplish things that were infeasible or uneconomical before, to try win market share or increase margins.
- ulfw 1y agoYou are assuming human resources are hired based on budget only instead of need. Your assumption is: "we have 400,000$ to spend on something. Oh okay let's spend them on hiring 4 engineers at 100k each" and with AI they just happen to be as efficient as 8 engineers. Yay. They'll just do more things. This might be the case at startups. For mid to larger size companies very often it is though: "we have X amount of work/projects/maintenance/support to do. How many people do we need and how much do we need to budget for that? Oh we need about 4? Will 400,000$ do? Okay let's go". In this case yes. If a $200/month AI subscription can bring those 4 people down to 3 or even 2 of course the company will lay off.
- lovich 1y agoHow do you square your comment with the fact that companies routinely engage in mass layoffs when they are profitable already?
- csa 1y ago> How do you square your comment with the fact that companies routinely engage in mass layoffs when they are profitable already? Not op, but… Just because a company is profitable doesn’t mean that they make good decisions around hiring.