Post by @pepdmin
LLMs and the destruction of knowledge worker jobs
Ways to feed my anxiety: reading this reddit post about an Austrian tech company starting to pressure first level support to quit in favor of chatbots... Hits a tad bit too close to home. Reddit-Post
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@pepdmin
Interesting, since there are also plenty of stories of big companies retro-pedaling completely after doing that (*).
I thought it was pretty clear by now that it does LLM do not work in most real-life situations.
Not only that, but it will create a huge problem in a couple of years, and I thought that would be pretty obvious as well. If you fire all junior developpers (for example), what happens when the senior developpers retire ?
Senior developpers do not grow on trees, they come from.. junior developpers.
So no junior means no senior down the line.
Mind you, part of the problem is that most people think short term, so if we fire people now, that's less expenses. For now.
Anyway. Sorry for the rant. 😜
Just kills me how some managers can be.
(*) for examples:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/companies-now-regret-replacing-people-ai-shekhar-kundra-rf0lc
https://www.forbes.com/sites/terdawn-deboe/2026/05/21/companies-fired-workers-for-ai-now-they-want-them-back/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-workers-for-ai-are-reversing-their-decisions.html
etc
https://www.techspot.com/news/112960-more-companies-rehiring-workers-they-replaced-ai-after.html
@francois spreadsheet greed kills all sanity... and ethics for that matter.
Plus the siren call of less expenditures in people is too sweet to ignore for those c-level fucks.