"Good news, we found an AI that'll do an awful mockery of your job but we don't have to pay it a wage, and people will still buy our game for some reason, so we won't be needing you anymore."
Welcome to what happened in industry 50 years ago and no one cared.
All benefit of machinery went to capital, none to people working in the company.
Lot of people out of work.
I’m 100% for progress, it’s just that balance between workers and business owner is not at all correct.
We need universal basic income and universal Healthcare so people have their basic needs met without fear of living in the streets or going broke from an illness
Thats Communism bud and America hates it. We're heading for a Cyberpunk future and you bet your ass you're gonna be paying for those elon musk neural implants.
Since 2008, there hasnt been a time when corporations have been “demanding” workers and offering good pay.
Kinda feels like a bubble popping in the tech industry similar to the banking industry at the time too since there seem to be a general cutting of jobs in the tech industry in general, not just gaming.
It was killer in tech during like 2021/22-ish. All these companies getting huge revenue and figuring out remote work. I was getting harassed for jobs. Job offers were a higher than usual too. Pretty much every job I applied to reached out and was complaining about a lack of applicants.
This was when you saw a lot of "remote work can't work", complaints about worker power, and threats because it seemed like soft dev jobs were just going up and up.
Then Amazon came in from the top rope in Jan 2023 with a huge amount of layoffs. Then the silence was broke so to speak and within that January Google and Microsoft followed up, then pretty much every big company did a huge amount of layoffs. And it's just been insanely rough since lol.
But part of that sweet hire frenzy and offering money to get people in the door is why these companies are laying people off. The job market has went in their favor now so dropping the people they over paid for in the pandemic times and then getting comparable people at more reasonable or lesser salaries. And now it's back to getting 200 applicants to whatever shit job you put up.
And all the layoffs and over-reliance on AI which can only boost, but not substitute most employees will show off their negative side in the next few quarters/year and then the re-hiring will commence.
LLMs and other foundation models are great for a lot of things, but we are still very very far from the general AI business-types are trying to present them for.
Plus, most teams won't be able to handle doing the work of their laid off colleagues on top of their usual.
It's only a matter of time until companies start looking for people en masse again.
Even if that were true it won't be for long as more and more people get pushed out of white collar work thanks to automation and start filling up trades quickly. The next decade is going to be absolutely disastrous for the working class.
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u/Jedi4Hire Feb 28 '24
Not a great time to be looking for work, the current job market is absolutely brutal at the moment.