Co-worker: I'm sure AI can do XYZ. It's all well documented. How hard could it be?

Me: I'm not convinced. I'm happy to be proven wrong but I'm not going to take it on faith.

Co-worker: 😶

... two minutes later ...

Co-worker: If only it could write my statement of work for me. That's my least favorite part of my job.

Me: So why do you want that to be your whole job?

Co-worker: ...

It's really not that hard, people. 🙄

Ya'know what else really bugs me?

After staring at me for a few seconds dumbfounded, struggling to find an answer to the question, he said something like, "I like talking to people." Then, realizing that talking to people wasn't a job, he clarified, "I like talking to people about what my AI will do."

Y'all... These people just want to be slaveholders. They want to have this amazing AI servant that just does whatever they want and they want their job to be to sit around with the other white AI guys and talk about what their AIs are doing. They want to live like a southern plantation holder.

It's not because we've created this great thing that helps people get work done. We haven't. It's because we've created this hype and propaganda machine that's giving white dude with dreams of power a technoboner.

@faithisleaping Yeah, well, they always wanted to replace women with docile somethings as well:

https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic”

Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

How Not To Use AI

@ics Yeah, I'm getting very very tired of it.

I'm sure I'll survive. At the end of this apocalypse, people with actual skills will be able to take those skills to the bank. But it's gonna be rough in the mean time.

@faithisleaping @ics I'm less self confident in my skills. TBH when this job ends one way or another, I don't know if I'll ever manage to find another in this technofascist hellscape industry.
@faithisleaping @ics I've been watching far far too many brilliant senior engineers sitting on the "I need a job, anything will do, desperately" for months and years

@JessTheUnstill @faithisleaping @ics

Oh hai. Coming up on two years, pretty sure I’m going to cut and run on the whole getting paid to write software thing. Cause I need to get paid period.