In a decade or so someone in the smoking crater of Journalism will discover that beneath the evaluations and hype, nearly all the gains outside narrow, repetitive coding tasks supposedly realized by ai was just coming from the pressure of labor discipline, clawing back the perks meant to keep engineers from unionizing, setting insane organizational goals, and burning out an entire generation of knowledge workers by the time they turn 30.

And everyone left in the industry will be like, well duh we could have told you that, either because they watched it happen or they can finally admit that was the plan all along.