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It's the marketing they were doing all the time that AI will replace developers and other jobs, then the companies started this bullshit firing thousands of peo
by brunoarueira 21d ago
It's the marketing they were doing all the time that AI will replace developers and other jobs, then the companies started this bullshit firing thousands of people without really thinking through. It's more sane to advertise that AI will augment us and I guess if they followed this path a more sustainable growth is expected to happen!
- joquarky 21d agoTheir exhuberance at the thought of decimating the labor force overrode their discretion. Reminds me of this: >I went through this Ford engine plant about three years ago, when they first opened it. > There are acres and acres of machines, and here and there you will find a worker standing at a master switchboard, just watching, green and yellow lights blinking off and on, which tell the worker what is happening in the machine. >One of the management people, with a slightly gleeful tone in his voice said to me, “How are you going to collect union dues from all these machines?” >And I replied, “You know, that is not what’s bothering me. I’m troubled by the problem of how to sell automobiles to these machines - Walter Reuther, Nov. 1956 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars