“Amplified and destabilized at the same time. We just set a new denominator for the job. And it moves higher every month.”
Half of tech workers say AI makes them more capable. That is not the good news it sounds like. When everyone gets a productivity boost, the boss just resets the baseline and expects the new number every month. The tools do not buy you slack, they buy management a reason to demand more for the same paycheck. The people feeling amplified today are training the treadmill that grinds them down tomorrow.