Humans invented machines to do their work so they would have more free time.
Yes, and that is a good thing as long as humans own the machines that do their work. This time, however, humans do not own the machines that do their work, and their unemployment is a problem, because the machine owners have no reason to keep the no longer needed humans around (or even alive).
When employers present these tools and their use as an opportunity for employees to expand their skills and grow their careers...
... those employers would just be lying, and many employees would see through this.
There is little "skill" in asking some AI agent to do something, and even if some employee meticulously formulates his prompts to optimize the effective use of the AI, this will go unnoticed by his supervisors, while at the same time a lot of general thinking skills shrink among the entirety of the population due to the outsourcing of thinking to AIs. The only growth their careers will see is a growth in free time due to unemployment or a growth in unpleasant physical work at minimum wage for those filling that gap until the robots get good enough also in physical work.
It's a trivial task that wastes one to two hours per person per month.
It's not as if one couldn't do "laundry folding" while watching a documentary or hearing some music... and not sitting still during such media consumption is even healthy.
So this is for people who don't understand how to use their native window manager to split-screen two windows and that also don't know about alt-tab?
Exactly my first thought when I read this, too. "Let's include a window-manager in our application, because the user cannot be bothered to know he already has one running." - just crazy.
Personally, I think the world would be a better place if we could get quick and easy answers to all of our (legal) questions.
That is what people also said about the Internet when it was young. Then came for-profit companies and enshittified it. And neither the people who are after your money nor the ones that want to rule you consider "answering your questions" beneficial, they want you stupid and obedient, not asking questions.
Is this the real answer to the Fermi Paradox? A society progresses until AI starts writing code?
"AI writing code" is too specific for becoming the "Fermi Filter", it will rather be "Humans outsourcing thinking to machines, losing the ability to think."
"The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is." -- Narciso Yepes
