Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMA
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A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
  • staircase@programming.dev
    2 hours

    This is not a good article

    A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless

    From wikipedia

    Examples of such professionals include ICT professionals, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, mathematicians, scientists, designers, public accountants, lawyers, librarians, archivists, editors, and academics

    Are they genuinely claiming all most of this work is pointless?

    The article continues

    What’s different about this moment is that the questions are not just economic but existential, the kind of questions that cause high-earning technical professionals to contemplate throwing it all away to start a goat farm in Washington or become a surf instructor in Costa Rica.

    I’m sure I’d seen memes about software engineers wanting become woodworkers before the AI deluge.

    The writing continues with needlessly crass language. I stopped reading.

  • professor_prime@lemmychan.org
    5 hours

    Because they got suckered into wasting their hard-earned skills on making the world a worse place.

    Being a sellout has its costs.