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Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

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388 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 25 Mar 25 17:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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Bukhmanizer ◴[26 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43485838[source]▶
I’m surprised not many people talk about this, but a big reason corporations are able to do layoffs is just that they’re doing less. At my work we used to have thousands of ideas of small improvements to make things better for our users. Now we have one: AI. It’s not that we’re using AI to make all these small improvements, or even planning on it. We’re just… not doing them. And I don’t think my experience is very unique.
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1. softwaredoug ◴[26 Mar 25 21:38 UTC] No.43487671[source]▶
Well in a ZIRP environment every department head imagined the thing they was building was a massive growth opportunity. Even if they were basically refactoring a part of the app the instinct was to build an empire. Now it’s do the minimum a lowest cost.