I'm an extremely pro-AI person and use it heavily at home (I actually just finished the most recent rewrite of my agent software that uses MCP. It's really amazing, a lot of people say the AI bubble is popping, I think it's only just starting, people have no idea how how far this stuff can go.)

I suspect I was just laid off for not using any of the AI tools at work. Here's why I didn't.

1) They were typically very low quality. Often just more hosted chatbots (and of course they pick the cheapest hosted models) with bad RAG on a good day.

2) It wasn't clear to me that my boss wasn't able to read corespondance with chatbots the way he could with my other coworkers which creates a kind of chilling effect. I don't reflexively ask it casual questions the way I do at home.

3) Most of my blockers were administrative, not technical. Not only could AI tools not help me with that but in typical corporate fashion trying to use the few sanctioned tools actually generated more administrative work for me.

Oh well. I'm kind of over corporate employment anyway and moving onto my own thing. Just another insane misfeature of that mode of socialization at that scale.