The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/knowledge-workers-ai-globalization-deindustrialization
“Right now, I’d wager the majority of #KnowledgeWorkers and #OfficeWorkers wouldn’t be comfortable working with #Rovo, meaning the context they’re likely to experience #AIAgents in is as an imposition from somewhere else in the #business.
Valliani said the goal would be to integrate AI tools into each team member’s everyday flow, and that the likes of #Atlassian was primed to do that thanks to the graph that gives its software so much #insight about how people #work.” <https://archive.md/udlfS> / <https://www.smh.com.au/technology/ai-won-t-steal-your-job-but-you-need-to-learn-to-work-with-it-20250502-p5lw2r.html>
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“#Atlassian chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes has #failed to convince #investors of his plan to lure #customers to its #CloudPlatform by making its #ArtificialIntelligence assistant #free, with an adverse reaction to the company’s quarterly earnings guidance shaving billions of dollars off his wealth.”
<https://archive.md/mKa8d> / <https://www.afr.com/technology/atlassian-warns-of-weaker-than-expected-sales-shares-plunge-17pc-20250501-p5lvtp>
When you have to play to both sides of the market, users who pay, investors who buy.
A reminder, #AI costs #money to operate. I couldn’t see IBM mainframe time handed out for free. That’s the lesson. #ArtificialIntelligence
@augieray this is such an old recurring issue. <sarcasm >I guess the ultimate solution is to replace all #knowledgeworkers with #ai. Too bad it’s not ready for prime time. https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-design-ai </sarcasm>
Offices are industrialized distraction optimizers for #KnowledgeWorkers and they always have been.
By serving as a forum for “ordinary” workers, #ProcessedWorld has reinforced the often suppressed truth that social knowledge and subversive wisdom flow from people's daily lives and not from an ideology or group of experts. By building a radical publication around art and humour, PW has reemphasised the importance of immediate enjoyment, both for surviving this insane world, and for reintroducing fun into radical attempts to change it.
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