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21 points xblpob | 1 comments | | HN request time: 1.321s | source

The last few years working in tech have been pretty brutal and now with all of the AI hype in full swing I have never felt like more of a replaceable cog in a machine.

It’s always seemed like a little bit of a race to cash out as quickly as possible by promising the world, selling, then letting everyone else deal with the fallout but now it seems like everyone is seeing the door about to close in front of them so they need to extract every ounce of productivity from those below them to get out while they still can.

I don’t want to be treated like a component in someone’s vehicle that you just swap out for a new one after you’ve burned it out which is what my entire job feels like more than ever.

I’m not excited about “AI” and I think while useful to some extent it will do more harm than good as our monkey brains scramble to make sense of what it is and fight each other for control over it. Does anyone else feel like this? What are the alternatives for someone who still likes programming but doesn’t want to be doing it professionally anymore if it means I’m going to have to be harnessed to the front of the dog sled while my boss screams “mush!”

1. mightymosquito ◴[] No.44006928[source]
I came to hackernews to ask the question - Is being in tech even worth it anymore?

Any business is truly about value creation, I honestly think coding as leverage is getting pretty useless.

Tangible value creation is something I think we should be optimizing for. AI can't walk upto people and sell. You might be selling a service, a product or lemonade it doesn't honestly matter.

On a lighter note, I am thinking of getting into farming, everyone's gotta eat right?