By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026For bosses, AI is a great leveler: it is sold as a way to distill and package up the skill and discernment of workers and infuse them into a pliable automaton. 1857
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026If you give workers instructions that reveal your ignorance, they might roll their eyes at you and make you feel bad about yourself. Even if they restrain themselves in the moment, they might make fun of you in the break-room later. 31117
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel. 214921
The Waitress Is Practicing Politics @joyceturiskylie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Absolute wrong president for this moment. 000
tomera @mjtomera.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Oh, but workers do make fun of the bosses and their AI demands in the break-room. The most common topic during the week's office days for sure. It is the way the bosses demand that AI be used that reveals the depths of their ignorance. Before, there was at least the slight illusion of competence. 050
