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   Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 21:50:40 JST Sue Smith

   Something that really annoys me with text editing apps that give you intrusive suggestions as you type (AI or other) is that a lot of the time the writing is part of my thought process. The goal is more complex than getting the words on the page, it's part of me figuring the thing out and these prompts interfere with that, aggressively so. 🤬

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     Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:55:54 JST Sue Smith

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     The question then is why don't we optimise for the conditions in which employees are best able to create value, surely then everyone wins.. Well it turns out holding the balance of power is even more important to yer ruling classes than making money is. They'd rather have a bit less money than share power with you.

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     Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:55:55 JST Sue Smith

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     The foreman cannae see how hard you're thinking 🤡

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     Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:55:56 JST Sue Smith

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     The work isn't producing the output, that's a tiny fraction of it. The work is thinking, taking time to understand the problem you're trying to solve, making sure it's the right one, communicating and collaborating around it within an organisational and economic system, it's.. complex. What we call "knowledge work" is about as far from being on a production line as you can get and yet here we still are dealing with this nonsense.

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     Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:55:57 JST Sue Smith

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     Lines of code anyone? We need to get to grips with this shit if we want paid work to remain a thing in the face of the AI grift.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:55:58 JST Sue Smith

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     This is what happens when you optimise for productivity, it actively inhibits the work where people actually create value.