AI usage at work has risen to absurd and moronic levels.
Entire dev teams getting dismantled and fired.
The people that work in accounting are expected to write their own accounting software (or rather, let AI do it). Same for marketing. And everybody else.
Former âtech nerdsâ, whom I used to respect, tell me that they havenât read any code in months. Let alone written some. They tell me that âAI is really good nowâ, itâs the future, yadda yadda. At the same time, when I read their code, I want to scream and cry (and most days I do).
Virtually everything is vibe-coded now. Everywhere you look you get to see code that no human will ever be able to maintain. Huge system âdesignsâ, expensive, slow.
At this point, Iâm almost hoping for the bubble NOT to burst, because that might very well mean the end of this company (and, thus, my job).
There is no âexit strategyâ. We completely depend on AI services now.
At the same time, Iâm expected to implement ISO27001.
Everything is vague, chaotic, wonky, shitty, buggy.
People are actively working on making themselves obsolete, and they donât seem to notice that theyâre doing that, because theyâre so engulfed with playing with their new AI toy.
I checked job offers, but it looks like every company is like this now. Maybe some are still a bit behind, but sooner or later, theyâll all be like that.
And the worst part is: None of this matters in the slightest, as long as thereâs some idiot out there who buys our stuff. Welcome to capitalism.
People keep telling me that you can âuse AI responsiblyâ and âjust to some degree, just as a toolâ, but they donât seem to realize that this does not matter in capitalism. Companies donât need âgood productsâ. They just need to sell something. If you still believe that âdoing a good jobâ matters and that âthey still need competent peopleâ, haha, my sweet summer child, nothing you do matters. You just happened to be needed in the past, but those days are gone.
The future is absolutely bleak â assuming there is a future.
