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the part that kills me is this isnt even satire anymore. the actual advice from actual managers is indistinguishable from the joke version. when your survival strategy at work is to publicly threaten your coworkers' jobs, the tools aren't the problem

He had me at "we commune with code." He lost me at "Ai is a calculator." True now, but down the road...? We don't know the glass ceiling and how many levels of abstractions we'll break through before we get to it. That is, if we survive the AI/Nuclear/choose-your-poison interim apocalypse(s).

"Talk about automation constantly. Nothing arouses the slumbering capitalists than the mention of automation. Drop names too, bro. Like talk about specific team members you can automate out of existence. Be like, yo, I automated Gary, bro."

"Tag Gary in the message. Tag him in Slack in a very public channel. Be like, yo, I just automated @Gary. His function has been Ralph Looped. And tag your CEO in the same message. You think you're getting laid off after that?"

I sent this to my buddy who works at Coinbase and istg he sent me back screenshots of 3 different weekly AI workshops that are on his calendar