Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces. — AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse. — This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.John Spurlock / @johnspurlock.com: ‘I also saw Google engineers in senior positions deciding to generate database schema with generative AI. I originally thought it was a joke but recently found out they just used the generated schema in actual (internal) services without modification.’ — www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is- ...Tamara Kneese / @tamigraph: Omfg these stories. Read them all. — Fantastic reporting by @bcmerchant.bsky.social on how tech workers are right now, as we speak, having their jobs fucked up by management's love of AIPaul Rietschka / @prietschka: The actuality of AI is, increasingly, just an excuse for shedding employees. — It doesn't matter that it doesn't work. It doesn't matter that remaining employees are left picking up the pieces of a broken internal culture/org chart. It doesn't matter that the cost savings are not materializing. …@midimyers.com: “I feel like I'm hiding plain sight, terrified someone will notice I'm actually doing all my own work” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is- ...Larson Lee / @larsonlee: This is fascinating. Bosses all across the tech industry are forcing employees to use AI for anything and everything, even when it makes their jobs harder and their outputs worse. When this bubble finally pops a lot of companies are going down, and we'll get years of terrible software as a souvenir.Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: In Silicon Valley, AI is being used to speed up work, justify department-wide layoffs, and generate code that is going unchecked into some of the world's largest and most important codebases. — Junior coders rely on AI to pump out code, and managers are using it to cut jobs and push out competitors.Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: This is the first installment of my ‘AI Killed My Job’ project. I decided to start with the tech industry, as that's where AI is being built, and often most eagerly adopting the tech. — We've seen the headlines about layoffs, the AI-first strategies, and so on—but what's happening on the ground? [image]Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler: This is a critical piece of journalism from @bcmerchant.bsky.social — a dozen tech workers in their own words explain how their bosses replaced them with AI, or how they were made to train the AI that replaced them, and what could or is already going wrong — www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is- ...@amyalexca: Whew 😬 “Being forced to use AI has turned a job I liked into something I dread. As someone with a journalism background, it feels insulting to use AI instead of creating quality blog posts about education policy.” — A marketing team-member at an EdTech co. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is- ...Christopher Rice / @badfutures.com: There's gonna be sooooo much software and database engineering work needed in the next few years because of the slop and bad code/tech debt being produced by AI. I hope the high quality CS folks who retain the skills to do the job charge out the ass for it. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is- ...Russell Garner / @rgarner: The best jobs I ever had, someone trusted me and wanted me to do a thing. The worst jobs I ever had, the trust was limited/conditional. And now we've got managers *mandating* that ICs use LLMs. That's the very opposite of trust. — The endgame of any of this is nothing good. — Join a union.Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: What impact is AI having on jobs in the tech industry? I've been collecting stories from tech workers—from engineers at giants like Google to content mods at TikTok to coders at small startups—to find out. — Here, in their words, is how AI is transforming, degrading, and yes, replacing their jobs., To be fair, most browsers now look like Chrome. One of the ones that didn't was Arc, notably because of its side-tabs. I miss the side-tabs when it comes to (tab) information density, and it seems like The Browser Company is working on ways to perhaps bring them back as an option within Dia. But the default should clearly be what people know , A look at The Browser Company's AI-first browser Dia, which merges AI models and hides that complexity for end users, pointing to the future of web browsing — About a week ago, I bit the bullet. Reading the writing very clearly on the wall, I abandoned the Arc browser and jumped ship over to Dia ….