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The Tech Market Situation is Crazy (medium.com)
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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like you didn't read the post or reacted too quickly and too angrily.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Are you sure you read it? The POV character gets fired (and ends up working as a ~~janitor~~ doorman) because they only start using it "too late".

[–] sebastiancarlos 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's implied that he actually gets fired because of refusing orders for 3 weeks, and then slacking off another week.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But you frame the only alternative as "use the AI tools we tell you to".

[–] sebastiancarlos 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't actually think I frame that as the only alternative. There's nuance on the article. It's a bit up to you how to interpret it. Some options are:

  • He would have actually kept the job if he hadn't slacked off the final week, and kept using AI.
  • The job was not a good fit for him anyway because the vibecode-heavy workspace virtually required using AI. But that doesn't meant that there wouldn't be other jobs for him (he gets one at the end btw).
  • He might have been able to get by without AI if he didn't go through his gargantuan vimwiki project for 3 weeks.