How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
What's happening
Job seekers frustrated by heavy AI adoption are asking how to find "AI-conservative" employers. Posters describe workplaces that have outsourced design, documentation and decision-making to AI and management pressuring staff to build agents, while others note AI is mostly replacing junior repetitive tasks like support and boilerplate coding. The question appears across Hacker News and Reddit threads: people want companies that use AI selectively (as a tool, not a mandate) or minimally, because they dislike using AI for "everything" or fear headcount cuts from AI projects.
Why it's trending
Because more teams are being pushed to adopt AI broadly, workers who tolerate some AI now want roles where AI use is limited or optional.
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- Is AI making expertise scalable?
The more AI use cases I see, the more I think we've been asking the wrong question. Everyone asks what jobs can AI replace , a more interesting question might be what bottlenecks can AI remove? Every growing company eventually runs into the same problem. The best people become the limiting factor and the best manager can only coach so many people. The best salesperson can only take so many meeting
r/artificialJun 24 - The AI cost paradox: why are some companies spending more?
The more I look at AI deployments, the less I think AI is replacing employees. It seems to be replacing junior repetitive tasks. Customer support: AI can answer 1,000 tickets simultaneously. Coding: AI writes boilerplate, tests, and documentation in minutes. Research: AI can read 100 papers faster than a human can read 5. But here's the weird part: Several companies are also reporting higher AI bi
r/artificialJun 23 - How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
Is it even possible? I don't completely hate AI, and leverage it to make things better but I don't like to use it for EVERYTHING. At my current job we have outsourced our thinking, our design, our documentation, our sanity to it and I just can't do it anymore. I'm considering getting out of tech entirely at this point I've been in it for almost two decades and I'
HackerNewsJun 23
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