Post #2135049
2026-05-06 18:08 UTC
@wordshaper the problem is that getting fired due to management obsession with AI is absolutely not an empty threat, and the job market right now is worse (from my perspective) than even the dotcom crash in the early 2000s. The anxiety is totally justified.
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@drwho@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-06 19:05
@llorenzin @wordshaper I can confirm all of these things.
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@zimzat@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 19:47
@llorenzin @wordshaper The anxiety started long before "AI"; management is always obsessing about something and developers are always afraid they're going to get fired which makes it easy for management to leverage that anxiety so they do things against their own best interest. At some point we have to say enough is enough but somehow it's always never now or this. A union and/or professional society would help but... 🤷