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Comment by adamredwoods | Hacker News Reader

Reflects the attitude of the company toward its workers.

I have one friend who, instead of firing her, her company asked her to use ChatGPT and increased her work load. Smart managers will augment their workers, unless, of course, the worker was poor-performing to begin with.

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Increased work load is just as nightmarish to me. In any case as improvements continue that would probably just be kicking the can down the road and abusing workers, before firing them later.

Automation should let people work less. Not just give rich people leverage to work us harder. Making people juggle more tasks at once with the AI will just burn them out.

Fortunately or not, history has shown time and time again that Parkinson's law still holds - work will always fill the allotted time. Pretty much the only way to decrease it is to mandate fewer working hours, like is starting to be done in Europe, for example.

If you want to work less you can do that. Many professional writers aren't regular W-2 employees but rather independent contractors paid on a piecework basis. They can use any writing tools, including ChatGPT, and can work as few hours as they like. Of course, prices will continue to fall for low-effort writing that doesn't involve any unique insight or original research. That was already happening with offshore outsourcing before ChatGPT was released.

in other words they gave her an intern who is fast but of in ferior quality that she now has to direct and moderate on top of the good quality job that she already does so that she can increase her work load for the same pay. Sounds like fun.

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