Heh heh…I'm starting to see a NEW hype cycle emerge.

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

Heh heh…I'm starting to see a NEW hype cycle emerge. This hype cycle is: walking back from the embrace of slop machines!

We're just at the early adopter phase now, but it's gathering momentum folks. Some big names—BIG I tell you!—are just now starting to make waves about this. You might want to get in on the ground floor before it's too late! You don't want to be…left behind.

Human skill, expert review, intentional accountability. *Mindblowing stuff.* This is the future folks. Totally.

[prietschka@mastodon.social]

@jaredwhite Except c-suites have already planned for a 1/4-1/3 head count reduction, with AI as the excuse.

So failure is not an option, even if that means pretending.

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@prietschka Yeah, but news outlets are starting to scoff at those headlines though. "AI" headcount reductions (not really). I'm not sure that pretense will work for much longer.

[prietschka@mastodon.social]

@jaredwhite I hope you’re right for the sake of workers, but the c-suite dwellers I know tell me this is already baked in to plans.

Disciplining labor, in 2026, is far more important than anything else. If that means using AI as the excuse to make employment as precarious as possible, then so be it. Whether it truly works or not doesn’t matter.

They’re also planning another wave of offshoring, for what it’s worth.

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@prietschka Well, you're probably right…I do believe things will get worse before they start to get better again.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@jaredwhite thank you for your outspokenness on these issues Jared and for giving me/us hope.

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