Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
Hacker News (AI keywords)4 days agoCommentaryAn Ask HN post questions whether large-company software engineering roles, including at FAANG-like firms, reward performative activity over meaningful progress. Commenters discuss bureaucracy, 1:1s, standups, management value, and the role of a small number of high-impact engineers. The thread is split: some see corporate make-work as inevitable, while others argue coordination, feedback, and organizational maintenance are real engineering costs.
CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs
Hacker News (AI keywords)5 days agoOpinionA TechDirt commentary argues that CEOs framing AI primarily as a tool to replace workers are exposing a fundamental failure of leadership vision. Strong leaders deploy AI to augment human capabilities and unlock new productivity, not simply to cut payroll. This replace-first mindset risks damaging morale, losing institutional knowledge, and missing the real competitive upside of human-AI collaboration.