[jaybyrd]

guys were just trying to take jobs away from you.... please stop being mean to us - richest people on earth 2026

[donkey_brains]

Today a manager at my work asked all his teams including mine “please write up a report on how many engineers from your teams we could replace with AI”.

Surprisingly, the answer he got was “none, because that’s not how AI works”.

Guess we’ll see if that registers…

[MobiusHorizons]

I would love to have responded something like “only one: yours”

But in all seriousness, ai does a pretty good job at impersonating VPs. It’s confidently wrong and full of hope for the future.

[consumer451]

I use various agentic dev tools all day long, mostly with Opus. The tools are very capable now, but when planning mid-complexity features, I find the time estimates hilarious.

Phase 1: 1-2 weeks

Phase 2: 1 week

Phase 3: 2 weeks

8 to 12 hours later, all the work is done and tested.

The funny part to me was that if I had an AI true believer boss, I would report those time estimates directly, and have a lot of time to do other stuff.

[sublinear]

All of them because cost cutting is a red flag in business regardless of what year it is.

[GolfPopper]

You forgot... "by stealing from artists and writers at scale".

[jacquesm]

You forgot about 'open source contributors' and 'musicians'.

[Mars008]

The picture will be incomplete if we don't mention that those 'artists and writers' are using the results at scale.

[malfist]

Techbros trying to replace wage theft as the largest $ crime in the US

[tsunamifury]

Something something… great artist steal.

[jaybyrd]

well if all the talent is stolen and put into our water destruction machine we can make significantly worse and more expensive versions of just giving the job to a wagey

[pesus]

On one hand, we're actively destroying society, but on the other, billionaires are getting richer! Why are you mad at us!?

[Sharlin]

Sonething something for a brief moment we created a lot of value for the shareholders