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aqua wonderful lodge
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Seedy Den Rigor
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no one wants to work anymore afaik
stimulating slap-happy knife
  02/18/26
People think "AI is going to take everyone's jobs,"...
motley area
  02/18/26
i think this is true
aqua wonderful lodge
  02/18/26
All one has to do is look around and see it. It's true acros...
motley area
  02/18/26
lol 180. this is correct. I think noone wants to say it out ...
Seedy Den Rigor
  02/18/26
we still Complete projects, but, uh, yeah exactly like that
impressive pozpig police squad
  02/18/26
Keynes thought we'd reduce the workweek to 15 hours. This is...
Yummy Phase Pol Pot
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well the good news is in five years everyone will be working...
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Is that really "worse" than routing prompts in a s...
Seedy Den Rigor
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Yeah I'm comparing it to what I did in the pre-AI world. I w...
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age / nw?
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Date: February 18th, 2026 2:48 PM
Author: aqua wonderful lodge



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:02 PM
Author: brass reading party address



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:02 PM
Author: Seedy Den Rigor



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:03 PM
Author: stimulating slap-happy knife

no one wants to work anymore afaik

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:09 PM
Author: motley area

People think "AI is going to take everyone's jobs," but in reality it's just going to further make work a series of tasks where you manage software and have nothing else to do in between that isn't total theater. People sense this on a deep level and are checking the fuck out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836034&forum_id=2.#49678373)



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:12 PM
Author: aqua wonderful lodge

i think this is true

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: motley area

All one has to do is look around and see it. It's true across almost all white collar fields, IMO. Comes out in strange ways, sometimes. But there is an underlying malaise.

A sort of "is this it, do I just take in data to feed into a 'data lake' and then press some keys for another software program that taps into that 'data lake' and then check over a pre-written by AI email before hitting send and then go on endless Zooms to rehash work done by a number of machines that I 'oversee' while pretending the meetings matter?"

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:27 PM
Author: Seedy Den Rigor

lol 180. this is correct. I think noone wants to say it out loud because a lot of modern work is already theater, but also everyone knows they are about to just become a glorified api wrapper in a slack channel

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Date: February 18th, 2026 10:49 PM
Author: impressive pozpig police squad

we still Complete projects, but, uh, yeah exactly like that

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Date: February 19th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot

Keynes thought we'd reduce the workweek to 15 hours. This is basically what has happened, but people are forced to do Performative Work. It's nuts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836034&forum_id=2.#49680811)



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Date: February 20th, 2026 8:47 AM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:14 PM
Author: odious naked fat ankles locus



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:28 PM
Author: Charismatic sexy school cafeteria

well the good news is in five years everyone will be working at bucees

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:42 PM
Author: Adventurous Space



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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:45 PM
Author: Seedy Den Rigor

Is that really "worse" than routing prompts in a slack thread, getting nitpicked by middle management, sitting in zoom calls to "align stakeholders" on work and pretending your oversight is strategic genius?

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:57 PM
Author: Charismatic sexy school cafeteria

Yeah I'm comparing it to what I did in the pre-AI world. I was never a good coder but I did actually enjoy it, and anyone who was willing to accept the smallest amount of personal responsibility and not just be an autistic asshole could generally find a nice place to work. Being a Prompt Manager will suck ass.

although I don't have kids so I don't really give much of a shit if my income gets sliced in 1/4. I've got enough Stuff at this point even being a poormo by xo standards. but it's not going to be fun for people with actual responsibilities

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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:22 PM
Author: aqua wonderful lodge

age / nw?

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Date: February 18th, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: Seedy Den Rigor



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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:24 PM
Author: Pungent Floppy Friendly Grandma Indian Lodge



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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: motley area

Something else I think we will see is a reallocation of salaries across companies. In part because technology will allow for much smaller admin headcount, but also because people doing actual work are the ones creating all the actual, non-performative value.

Much ink has been spilled about skilled labor shortages. The WSJ had an article a little while back about how top level technicians at auto repair shops can make good money, but it takes a decade to reach that level. But the "good money" described is like $90,000 a year. Meanwhile some fraud sending "slacks" and talking about output from a handful of SaaS programs over Zoom (while being recorded to train AI) makes $120k and works 10% as much as the person who actually fixes things that we use in the real world.

This will change.

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Date: February 18th, 2026 5:19 PM
Author: Slimy french wagecucks

Did you major in liberal arts? Or Engineering? The Baumol effect is salient imho. Also blue collar jobs have insane oversupply compared to how much they suck because Scumbags and URMs have extremely low GPAs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836034&forum_id=2.#49678816)



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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: Exhilarant associate keepsake machete

white collar jobs have been all women for 15 years. blue collar jobs are like 50% illegals now.

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Date: February 18th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: Hideous green ladyboy casino



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:30 PM
Author: robot daddy



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