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Yeah, I company decided to dismiss half the staff and replace us with AI.
What did you do that your work can be replaced by AI?
Don't think it matters. They'll replace manual laborers with AI if need be. It's just a way to juice the numbers to keep the shareholders happy. "Oh we replaced a bunch of people with AI so we now get more done with less costs". What happens to productivity for real? Next quarter's problem.
Well about 6 months ago they started getting weird about AI and kind of making us use it more and more and as much as we can.
We also had to write down what task each of us do and how it can be improved by AI. Then a month or two ago they decided to dismiss around 50 or 60% of the company. The rest just have to pick up the slack and doing even more work with AI, but what I hear from my colleagues that are left, they have to work longer hours and it's not easier for them. Sure AI makes some tasks easier, but you have to baby sit it so much.
I also heard a rumor that they might be preparing for a sale at the end of the year, so this might be a way to artificially pump the stock price and let the next sucker deal with it.
Yeah, I'm going to have some doubts about the "AI replaced me" part. My company works heavily with AI now and no one has lost their job. What their job was is EXTREMELY important here. Did they make birdhouses at a financial firm?
Nevermind. I found him: https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/woodland-hills/theseus-games-inc https://www.themarque.com/profile/justin-berenbaum His LinkedIn connects Thesus Games with Xsolla.
Yeah, he wasn't "replaced by AI".
NOTE: If you're thinking that maybe it is just a dev working for Thesus Games, you can check the comment history on that account like: https://lemmy.world/comment/24338752 Name changes have to go through leadership meaning this was Justin speaking.
Hahha dude! That's not me :D This is company registered in the US it has nothing to do with games. My IRL job had nothing to do with game dev. Theseus Games is just my game dev studio and it operates out of the EU. I'm not responsible for every company in the world that has the same name
Software company, my dude