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If #AI is allegedly so good for worker productivity and improving efficiency across organizations, why are the AI companies making their own employees work 72 hour workweeks?
If the tech actually helped them get more done faster, wouldn’t they have SHORTER workweeks? Why aren’t they using their own tools to help their employees?
Context: https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-schedule/
Also - I personally know someone who joined #Anthropic earlier this year, and they told me that this is a job with far longer work hours than any other place they’ve worked at.
They are also pulling 60+ hour weeks there, they have zero tolerance for remote work, because the culture is “you don’t want to be left behind”. This person basically disappeared from social life once they took this job. I had never seen them so tired before.
Are you working in tech? Do you not have a STEM degree and are mostly self taught? I'd like to hear your story.
Boosts are welcome.
I watched someone "vibe code" for an hour and now I think "slot machine coding" is a more appropriate name. "Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt."
Here's what I sent them:
I don't use generative AI. I have a computer science degree so I understand how large language models work, and I don't believe that they have any value. They are just stochastic parrots. That they so beguile their users with vapid statistically-probable output is distressing.
But LLMs have still changed my life, because the training models are forever scraping my personal web site, costing me bandwidth and money, violating the copyright on my original content without my consent. The datacentres that house LLMs consume vast amounts of energy and fresh water, an environmental disaster in the making.
I expect that in the future, LLMs will once again change my life as I'm called to cover for an entire generation of workers who lack important life skills such as composition and critical thinking. I'm not exactly looking forward to it.