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Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

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388 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 25 Mar 25 17:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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prisenco ◴[26 Mar 25 21:37 UTC] No.43487649[source]▶
The AI takeover of the startup space makes me feel a bit crazy because there are still thousands of world-changing app ideas that have zero to do with AI but nobody's funding or building them.

We can't possibly have run out of consumer app ideas in a decade or two, right?

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1. sho_hn ◴[26 Mar 25 22:24 UTC] No.43488156[source]▶
Honestly, as a guy working in open source at the time, the massive brain drain when crypto came along and young people wanted to get rich instead of solving problems was increadibly dispiriting and frustrating. Seen in comparison, the AI stuff has a much bigger application space, is building tools, and is far less frustrating to me.
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2. nicbou ◴[27 Mar 25 00:20 UTC] No.43489071[source]▶
Not only get rich, but do so in the least productive, most destructive way imaginable.
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3. boringg ◴[27 Mar 25 01:08 UTC] No.43489386[source]▶
Totally vapid class of people working in there minus a few notables.