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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: 0.4s | source
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Bukhmanizer ◴[3/26/2025, 7:14:00 PM] 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. didibus ◴[3/27/2025, 12:06:00 AM] No.43488988[source]▶

Not just less in that sense, but also, they are no longer focused on growth, so the question is, how do we maintain the current offering but lower the cost of operating it. You need less people to maintain, and by losing people you also reduce the cost.