Yes, you'll be working less because we're replacing your team with AI

-management

One bill later from AWS...

Why is everything so expensive!

-still management

Based on my AI enthusiast colleagues, I totally believe 100x productive.

100 x 0 == 0

How do they even measure productivity? The line of code output?

Neither is the case

Me, being 100x more productive

Increasing spam phone calls by 100x

"No Padme. I will be out of the job and fill repositories with my vibe coded slop free of charge."

I now start and abandon x10 more hobby projects every year, so yeah, my productivity is definitely up.

Generally people choose to work the same hours even when their productivity goes up because the opportunity cost of not working an hour goes up too

100x productivity boost? Then you must be working much less, and still making much more, right? Doesn't even need to reach that 100x figure, even say half the work hours and 2-3x the pay or 1/4 the work hours for the same pay would be great.

What's the point then?

100x, in much the same way that a team of 100 interns will. AI useful but lacking context.

The word is "conscientious". AI is not conscientious because it has no interiority. Therefore, it doesn't actually take any responsibility for the work, which means it doesn't actually make you more productive.

Similar to a calculator is great for adding numbers together, and a computer accelerates that, but woodworkers just use the lengths of the wood rather than calculating things.

I work less these days with a bump of productivity and I'll be getting a sizable bump in salary eoy🤷‍♂️

Win win in my situation for the moment.