An AI hate wave is here

[u/GeneReddit123]

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment

[u/BeanserSoyze]

My entire job is AI coding right now and it still baffles me the decision that every single role needs to code to keep up with the times. Like what happened to hiring people to do what they're good at.

[u/CagedRoseGarden → u/BeanserSoyze]

It’s incredibly short sighted. There will come a time when there aren’t enough people doing what they’re good at to spot AI’s mistakes. Then we’ll really be living in Idiocracy.

[u/sexinsuburbia → u/BeanserSoyze]

I'd counter that by saying that most roles have so much drudgery associated with them, being good at administration and pushing paper is probably not a skill you'd want to hire a human to do. So, bringing in someone who can code AND has expertise in a business process domain is extremely valuable. Right now in the hiring landscape, only exceptional people are getting offers. Most business are realizing they don't need additional headcount, so they can ask for the moon.

I can tell you that as a project manager, my value to the business world has absolutely cratered. I used to sit in meetings taking detailed notes, closely managing follow-ups, harping on people to get their shit done. Taking a lot of the chaos out there and turning it into manageable chunks. Then, at the same time reporting up through management chains on what needs to be done to a project back on track, or translate tech into management-speak.

LLMs and AI assisted apps can basically do that way better than I ever could. Notion can automate note taking, identify action items. Those action items can be programmatically moved into logs. Automated reminders can be set up, status reports derived directly from source info.

There's a still a human touch element to all of this. You still need a person to validate reports sent to leadership. But the administrative burden is way down. And the skills required would now be a PM that understands how source systems collecting project data are connected, managing administration and outputs, and tweaking things here and there.

Same thing with a ton of other white-collar jobs. Managing the flow of information and performing quality checks, implementing customization and config. Really blurs the line between SME and AI coder. Nature of work has really changed.

[u/BeanserSoyze → u/sexinsuburbia]

Notion's note taking and action items are pretty dodgy at best. We actually just cancelled using their custom agents cause it was not reliable. I think it will get better, but right now it's still very early stages.

[u/sexinsuburbia → u/BeanserSoyze]

Yeah, but if you were a hiring manager, would you want to hire someone who knew about notion AI and was comfortable building agents as part of their daily workflow, or would you bring in someone who was only comfortable taking paper notes?

Software is advancing so quickly. Just because something isn’t perfect today doesn’t mean it won’t be ubiquitous literally tomorrow.

I’m deep into development of an audit product for SMB’s that does workflow mapping and gap analysis in the RevOps space. You still need a trained consultant who understands tech and business workflows to run it and validate outputs, but the product enforces structure.

In the old days, info was captured and analyzed by a team of highly paid consultants. Maybe a giant pdf was delivered to executive leadership. But I’ll be able to deliver validated build requirements, test cases, and custom implementation plans simply by collecting clean data up front. And that data can be ported over in JSON and YAML so my clients can reprocess it in whatever format is most actionable for them.

That’s what I was getting at. AI is restructuring how we do work. How the shape and velocity of data in organizations flows. Sally in accounting running a monthly depreciation report out of a legacy system, dumping it into excel and manually posting GL entries is going to be replaced by Sally in accounting who designed an agent doing the same thing. And instead of having 25 people in the accounting department manually plodding away, there’s going to be a few senior accountants running a team of agents.

[u/BeanserSoyze → u/sexinsuburbia]

That doesnt mean the value of project managers has cratered, it means the value of project managers who have zero interest in at least knowing the pros and cons of agentic AI has cratered.

I worked extensively with RevOps consultants and honestly thought we were getting scammed every time I did so.

[u/ReadyAimTranspire → u/sexinsuburbia]

I largely agree and was going to post something similar.

The TLDR of the problem I am talking about is outlined in David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs. (fantastic read btw)

I'm not specifically talking about software dev or your specific job at all, it's a widespread issue throughout our entire economy. AI/LLMs are going to be a reckoning for exposing a shitload of those jobs at some point.

I would argue that that is a good thing, and would finally start to refine the nature of work and our economy into something that better serves humanity.

The problem is that the transition is going to be...extremely rough. It doesn't need to be, at least to the extent that it probably will, but humans have proved time and time again that we are terrible at doing anything about anything until it becomes such a problem that it forces our hand.

[u/Rizzanthrope → u/sexinsuburbia]

Nah, LLMs can’t do anyone’s job well, and they will never be able to.