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Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

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388 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 3/25/2025, 5:02:00 PM | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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7qW24A ◴[3/26/2025, 6:31:00 PM] No.43485292[source]▶

Corporations that over-hired over the past 10 years needed an excuse to cut the layers of fat and bureaucracy out, and AI came along at just the right time. It doesn’t matter if AI is increasing productivity; what matters is that people think it might be.

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1. riku_iki ◴[3/26/2025, 7:23:00 PM] No.43485978[source]▶

The problem is that overhired personal created lots of extra process/org/code/infra complexity, so just by firing X% of people may produce significant damage because rest won't be able to handle that extra complexity or have enough institutional knowledge.