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Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

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118 points soraminazuki | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source
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AlexandrB ◴[31 Aug 25 05:16 UTC] No.45080550[source]▶
LLMs are the first technology I've experienced where there's a lot of top-down pressure to adopt it ASAP. Most other technologies in my career, like VCS or static analysis or whatever else were championed by colleagues or peers.
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staplers ◴[31 Aug 25 06:11 UTC] No.45080779[source]▶

  there's a lot of top-down pressure to adopt it ASAP
Because you're training it to replace you. MBA's have found a tool that finally allows them to cut out pesky intellectuals and creatives and they're chomping at the bit to make that a reality. Look around, dark enlightenment is being embraced/tolerated at the top.
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1. EFreethought ◴[31 Aug 25 06:23 UTC] No.45080832[source]▶
What a lot of these More Bad Advice pinheads are too stupid to understand is: If you do not need those pesky tech people to make an app for your clients, then your clients do not need you either.
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2. realusername ◴[31 Aug 25 07:03 UTC] No.45081006[source]▶
People are generally surprised when I tell them that, we would replace the CEO before we replace the developer the way it's going.

And if you manage somehow to replace all your devs with AI, be worried about your business because the bar to compete has been lowered.