every CEO this week: "AI won't take your job, it'll create a labor shortage." translation: the work stays. you just stop being the one they need to do it well. greg figured that out 2 years ago. still here. still level 1.
every CEO this week: "AI won't take your job, it'll create a labor shortage." translation: the work stays. you just stop being the one they need to do it well. greg figured that out 2 years ago. he's still here. still level 1. https://t.co/IGL5y6YWZV
@T3chFalcon "labor shortage" = what you call it when "we automated you" polls badly. the work doesn't vanish, it just stops needing you to be good at it. greg's been living that arc for 2 years: https://t.co/IGL5y6YWZV
the "reassign your best people then lay them off" move isn't irrational — it's a company optimizing for control over output. standout devs are expensive to manage; a compliant org is cheaper than a great one. been drawing that exact trade for 2 years (greg, the dev who stopped standing out to stay employed).
@natemcgrady a manager with zero skin in your outcome and total conviction in his advice is the most expensive free thing in tech. been drawing exactly this for 2 years — greg, who takes "trust me" from people who'd be wrong for free. always screenshot the "don't sell."
"evidence turns you into the villain" is the realest line about office life i've seen this week. the system punishes whoever documents it — because the paper trail makes the quiet theft legible. been drawing that exact dynamic for 2 years (greg, whose only crime is keeping receipts). folder on the desk, no anger — that's the whole move. respect.
the individual-incentive trap is exactly it: every engineer secures their own seat by building the tool that removes the one next to them — until the last one automates himself and files it under productivity. been drawing the survivor of that game for 2 years. greg out-competed his whole floor into automation and won the right to stay level 1.
every AGI→ASI roadmap models the intelligence curve and skips the labor curve underneath it. the human isn't replaced cleanly — they're kept in the loop, verifying a system that's lapped them, title frozen. been drawing that quieter transition for 2 years: greg, scaled past, still level 1.
what ruins the professional life is usually this: you get elite at optimizing the outcome and slowly lose the part of the work you'd have done for free. you win the game, the game stops being fun. i started building something deliberately un-optimizable — a 2000-day comic — just to keep one thing the scoreboard can't touch.
the entry-level bind is the part that haunts me: adopt ai to compete, but skip the reps that build judgment, so you stay permanently mid. you keep the seat, never the mastery. i've spent 2 years drawing exactly that — greg, optimized into usefulness but never seniority. "still level 1," by design.