[sydbarrett74]

AI provides cover to lay people off, or else commit constructive dismissal.

[lotsofpulp]

Constructive dismissal and layoffs are mutually exclusive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

>In employment law, constructive dismissal occurs when an employee resigns due to the employer creating a hostile work environment.

No employee is resigning when an employer tells the employee they are terminated due to AI replacing them.

[heavyset_go]

AI is what you tell the board/investors is the reason for layoffs and attrition.

Layoffs and attrition happen for reasons that are not positive, AI provides a positive spin.

[lmm]

> No employee is resigning when an employer tells the employee they are terminated due to AI replacing them.

No, but some are resigning when they're told their bonus is being cut because they didn't use enough AI.

[TheDong]

Using AI makes me want to resign from life, it removes all the fun and joy from coding.

I absolutely will resign if my job becomes 100% generating and reviewing AI generated slop, having to review my coworker's AI slop has already made my job way less fun.

[sydbarrett74]

Hence the ‘or else’ qualifier.

[zippyman55]

Agreed! The people who did not work hard but were kept employed ala “bullshit work” are being removed.

[bravetraveler]

Eh, I have plenty of "bullshit work". Only that, actually, for the foreseeable future.

Building clusters six servers at a time... that last the order of weeks, appeasing "stakeholders" that are closer to steaks.

Whole lot of empty movement and minds behind these 'investments'. FTE that amounts to contracted, disposed, labor to support The Hype.