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Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

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388 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 25 Mar 25 17:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source
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nopelynopington ◴[26 Mar 25 18:57 UTC] No.43485602[source]▶
I flip flop daily on whether it has or not. Even the best AI engines write truly awful code, and it might not improve. But it also makes it easier for people to coast, and turn in half assed work, which is certainly a pathway to the decline of knowledge work
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kccqzy ◴[27 Mar 25 04:00 UTC] No.43490278[source]▶
You are describing quiet quitting, which is a reaction to the period of overwork and burnout during COVID.
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1. milesrout ◴[27 Mar 25 08:59 UTC] No.43491591[source]▶
"Quiet quitting" is just laziness from people that don't take any pride in their work. It was not a reaction to "overwork" or "burnout". Laziness has always existed. This was just a new name for it.
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2. johnnyanmac ◴[27 Mar 25 14:38 UTC] No.43494127[source]▶
Quiet quitting is realizing that you want to move on in your career but every interview process takes 2+ months for beauracrit reasons instead of actually judging your ability to do the job.

Quiet quitting is having no safety net when you're no longer satisfied with your job for any reason but your Healthcare is tied to your employer as ransom.

Quiet quitting is realizing you are going to be terminated in the next wave of layoffs 3-6 months later and that your efforts will not save your job anyway, so focus on jumping ship.

Greed has always existed, this was just a new name companies tried to gaslight with. I don't want to hear about "lazy workers" in a time where layoffs (that aren't performance based) are only increasing in a society thst decides it lawful to treat an employment contract as as a toy to be thrown away at any whim.