Unemployment for an entire generation isn't 'quiet time.' It's a failing labor market and a warning sign for the economy

[tblue37]

Unemployment for an entire generation isn’t ‘quiet time.’ It’s a failing labor market and a warning sign for the economy.

— Brad Takei (@bradtakei.bsky.social) 2025-11-17T18:27:40.883Z

[mwmisses4289]

1. Not sure if believe ai is making workers more productive.

It's an incredibly flawed form of tech, where humans are having to spend time to go back and correct ai mistakes, slowing down time on anything.

[haele]

3. A lot of tech jobs available are for code editors and AI checkers.

And an old friend who's an Adjunct English professor (at four local Universities) supplements her income with a gig job editing and verifying AI developed business press notices for accuracy for $125 a release. Takes her hour or two, depending on the amount of information in the notice and how hard it is to get a hold of people.
We're a large tech and developer area, so she's turning down work.
She said if she didn't love teaching and student interaction so much, she'd quit and do it full time for around $100 an hour.

[meadowlander]

4. Certainly not in my job.

In 95% of the use cases, it takes longer to write the prompt and then correct the response than it takes to just write the damn thing yourself. The hard work is figuring out what you want to say in the first place and AI is useless at that bit.

And it's irritating as shit pushing itself into processes where you don't want or need it and causing the computer to lag. I use writing to structure my thinking and AI just gets in the way of that.

What it's mildly useful for is:
a. a kind of faster Google/response aggregator.
b. a coach for how to use all the obscure functions of Excel and Powerpoint that you never bothered to learn until you suddenly need them
c. a hit or miss copy editor that you can help make parts of your writing more concise but which probably 80% of the time you have to ignore because they suggested changes are no longer factually accurate or leave out pieces that you legally need to include or wanted to emphasise.

There's a new hire on our team who I suspect uses AI to cover for not really being that qualified for her job. You can tell by the super long verbose written responses that don't really answer the question you asked her and then when you talk to her in person it's obvious she doesn't understand her own reply.

The time I spend dealing with that is more lost productivity and just wait until the entire rest of the eight junior members of our team are doing it. It erodes trust between team members because I know I'm double checking anything I use it for but I can't trust new people to be doing (or to be able to do) the same, so I end up doing more of their work when I review their stuff than I might otherwise.

[leftstreet]

2. We're going to need a basic income n/t