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Comment by mahoho | Hacker News Reader

It's time to give up your silly cynicism, embrace being a professional slop shoveler and doing work with higher volume, more repetition and less creativity than ever.

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This is going to be the GenX equivalent to the boomer meme about not spending money on avocado toast and save for a house instead.

If you kids could stop wasting money on Spotify and Xbox Live, you could pay $200/mo for ChatGPT Pro to become AI-native.

You should rewatch Office Space, The Matrix or Fight Club to remind you what a typical office job was like in the 90s and what Gen X grew up with. Thinking you are entitled to a fun and creative job is more like a Millenials fantasy to me.

The slip mines need more PhD labour to label stuff - that’s your future and you better learn to love it.

The sloppings will continue until morale improves.

I've embraced it, and I'm coding faster than all my colleagues, some days I open more PRs than the rest of my team combined.

Are your colleagues slower because they're spending all their time reviewing your PRs?

Are you earning more money or working fewer hours? Are you eating healthier meals, with better sleeping quality? Because all I read is that you are generating more money for the shareholders.

The true american dream. Generating as much money for shareholders as humanly possible and then going home to your rented apartment to be surveilled by AI companies finding ever more intrusive ways to shove ads in your face.

Even more importantly, generating even more wealth for the already beyond ultra-wealthy, to whom those "shareholders" are simply a necessary annoyance in their quest to be the last to die with all the wealth. :sigh: :sadface:

I sincerely hope this comment is satire.

I forgot the `/s` and now my Karma is gone...

Ha, well you've restored a fraction of my optimism about humanity.

The last decade has been quite a workout for Poe's Law.

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