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For Gen Xers living in an AI world
69 contributions to Gen X & AI
8d •
A post on X
By V0xium I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
0 likes • 2d
Wow. That's not going to work long-term. It will catch up for them eventually.
20d •
What I find interesting
There’s a current way of thinking that we are moving from a creator economy to a knowledge/learner economy. That people simply creating content that entertain will become meaningless and those with relevant knowledge will tap into a mass of “learners” and that can be monetized. And that makes sense in the short term as people try and keep pace with advancements attributed to AI. But AI is also going to destroy the knowledge industry by “giving” access to knowledge to the masses. So are we then unemployed, on universal income, spending our time doomscrolling, watching cat videos and pretty girls lip syncing and trying to figure out if they are real or AI. I’ve been vibe coding some incredible apps. Am I wasting my time? Are we all just wasting our time?
0 likes • 9d
I don't think you're wasting your time at all. I think people will fall into two categories. Unfortunately, the majority of people will enjoy the AI junk food and live off of that and then feel empty and not know why. And then there will be those at use AI as a tool but reject the dependency and go back to what makes humans human, connection, in person activities, community, etc. We can't escape our human nature. We'll want to explore, challenge ourselves, achieve goals, provide, nurture, etc. If you're creating video apps using AI then you're going to allow people to explore the tech and explore their creativity, which will be very valuable to many people.
0 likes • 20d
That's interesting. The question for me, in the best case scenarios, is that high growth somewhat distributed across the various economic levels or does it land in a relatively few bank accounts. To be clear, I'm 100% capitalist, but the premise of growth being a good works if the results are shared more than isolated.
0 likes • 20d
@Tom Heckbert crazy times. Not to sound woo-woo, but tech adoption and practice is really a reflection of the human heart. Greed, compassion, power, charity, kindness, selfishness, prudence, recklessness. If we solve the heart problem the tech wouldn't frighten us. I know that's a fool's errand, but it's hard to win battles working from the outside in. That usually leads to change only AFTER the calamities have occurred. Honestly, we all know better, but it would take preemptive patience and sacrifice to stop bad outcomes. Few to none of the leaders in the space think that way.
Sep '25 •
GEN Xers - Welcome Home!
Gen Xers are the most technologically adaptable generation in human history, from the dial-up modem to AI. Together we can overcome any challenge and AI is our next tech challenge. Let's learn it together. :) Share a picture of yourself and tell us what you want to learn about AI. I'll go first... I want to learn AI so I can be in control of my employment future.
1 like • Jul 1
@Rob Tabb I accidentally hit enter before it was done. I'm starting to dive deep into Claude cowork and working on testing that internally. I have some family members that are entrepreneurs that could use digital assistance. They'll be good use cases for me.
1 like • Aug 28
@Joel Rosario Yes, the efficiency gains are pretty awesome. I've been using Claude cowork to create a second brain of data and information that helps me create very specific outputs designed for different areas of interest. And because of claude co-work's you said markdown files has been a game changer as far as being able to define the boundaries within which you want AI to work based on the project you're working on and the goal you have
0 likes • Jul 17
I personally find the similarities between big tech rollouts, like the internet would rollout in comparison to the AI, rollout and adoption
0 likes • Aug 28
Yeah, the consequence of AI will create two types of people. Those people who use AI to replace their talent and therefore become weaker, or those people who use AI to free themselves up to expand their talent and become stronger. The second one takes a lot more work and a different way of thinking. But it's worth it if you can figure it out for your specific area of interest.
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@pete-bauer-6114
A fellow 50+ seasoned employee fighting the onslaught of technological challenges impacting our employment futures.
Active 2d ago
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