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   ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing: (besserwisser@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 17:02:27 JST ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing:

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   @kaia @lain A lot of executive positions are bullshit jobs. They're the equivalent of boomers telling you they used to work harder back in the day.
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     kaia (kaia@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 17:02:28 JST kaia

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     @lain
     one somewhat sneaky reason AI cannot succeed in some jobs is that these jobs are completely redundant. you can't automate something ephemeral. you don't need AI when you don't have any problems worth solving. you actually need to do stuff by hand lest your superior (who also doesn't do anything) arrives at the idea that you are lazy.
     
     I don't know what percentage of jobs that actually applies to, but I've seen tons of those in German and LU companies, especially in public sector.
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     lain (lain@fediffusion.art)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 17:02:29 JST lain

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     @kaia that's absolutely insane. what are they doing, asking two questions in the browser?
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     kaia (kaia@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 17:02:30 JST kaia

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     @lain Ed Zitron or another AI critic quoted study that executives pushing AI use it for 100 minutes a week on average. which would be less time than a business dinner. and those were in the pro-AI-camp not the opponents.
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     lain (lain@fediffusion.art)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 17:02:31 JST lain

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     @kaia once again, i often wonder if people actually use these systems.
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     kaia (kaia@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 17:02:32 JST kaia

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     @lain saying vibe coding is merely writing code is straw manning it again, seeing the majority of time modern models spend on understanding the requirements, exploring the setup and troubleshooting/iterating on what they wrote. i don't think this differs from programmers.
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     lain (lain@fediffusion.art)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 17:02:33 JST lain
     > This article examines eight of the most common misconceptions. We already know developers don’t actually spend most of their time writing code, with studies at Microsoft and elsewhere showing it’s closer to 14 percent. That means AI code generation, even when it works well, touches a surprisingly small slice of the actual job.
     
     "We already know that actually scoring a goal is only ~0.5% of the time spent by professional football players. So an assistant that scores a goal all day touches a surprisingly small slice of the actual job"