Comment by PunchyHamster
1 day ago
> So logically, if AI can help us complete tasks 2-100x faster than before, we should be UNDERWORKED and experiencing ZERO burnout, right?
No. you got lied to by AI bros. 100x times the code (that if you burn enough tokens that you could actually hire someone to go thru your ideas and make them...) is not 100x times the productivity
That's not the reason, the reason is that you get paid for eight hours, and that's how much you'll work, regardless of the number of tasks you complete in those hours.
Ah, you're not on salary in the US, I take it.
Not having an exact number of hours works in both directions; there's no lower or upper bound on how much you're expected to work, and with most tech jobs being at-will employment, it's not like they couldn't fire you with virtually no notice if they decided you weren't working enough. "Work as little as you want, if you think you can get away with it" is not a game of chicken that most people will end up being super confident in playing.
I dunno about in the US, but being on salary in Canada I bet I've averaged well over 40 hours a week in my career. I know the usual trope is people on salary work as little as possible but it's not true for me. And that's not a flex. I'd much prefer to work less, but deadlines are deadlines and they're always calibrated to cost me my evenings and weekends, not cause the customer any delays
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