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Lucy Guo a co-founder of Scale AI gave an interview where she said that AI has made people work harder. We gained AI agents but workers need to stay up to monitor them and then review the results. Lucy said time savings from the AI agents was negated because people have been assigned more tasks and goals as workers are being stretched thing. AI is making the grind culture more widespread so people are working harder to keep pace with others.

I see companies using AI as the excuse for downsizing and the remaining workers have to keep up all the work output with fewer employees. That seems more AI is being used as a scapegoat. Indirectly making people work harder because the CEOs want bigger profits.

What do you think? Is there a trend of AI making people work harder?

I don't have kids but do a lot of work with schools. I have seen the effects of too much screen time but never really personally felt them until the other day. A friend's house was getting fumigated so she asked if her 12 year old twins could spend the day at mine since I work from home. They are sweet kids and I said no problem. Boy was I wrong! There were problems.

The girl ended up making plans with friends so was only here for a few minutes. The boy was here ALL DAMN DAY and I barely got any work done. It's not that he was trying to be obnoxious or anything like that. It's just that he requires constant stimulation and cannot deal with even a minute of silence. I set him up with his playstation and a TV downstairs and tried to work in my office upstairs. Never realized how much sound carries through my house! He was either screaming at his game or talking to his friends through a headset FOR HOURS. He also looked like a deer in headlights when I told him he was welcome to make whatever he wanted for lunch if he didn't want the Chinese leftovers I had in the fridge. It's not like my pantry is full of exotic foods that require culinary school to master. I had plenty of staples at the ready. He told me that his mom or sister always make him lunch. I'm pretty sure my mom stopped making my lunch around 4th grade and I quickly learned to make a mean egg sandwich.

Were my expectations too high? I fully thought that I would just be some nebulous adult presence, not an actual babysitter for a 12 yo.

Maybe I've been living under a rock but I had no idea this show even existed. I found out a few weeks ago when a friend got me into Star City and mentioned FAM. Well, I loved Star City so decided to rewind to this. I am on a bender - binged season 1 last weekend and would already be done with season 2 if I hadn't put limits on myself (almost there anyway). Needless to say I am over the moon (yup, did that) even though I get mad at some of the character shenanigans.