Techie Claims AI Increases Workload, Disrupts Industry Inefficiencies

A software professional with five years of experience has gone viral on social media, claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) tools have dramatically increased employee workloads.

The developer argues that AI has dismantled the tech industry's carefully designed inefficiencies, eliminating downtime and making workplace life harder for employees.

In the pre-AI era (2021-2024), projects used to span six months, with most of the work done in the last month.

However, since the rise of AI, project timelines have significantly reduced.

Juniors are using AI to ship code quickly, often without understanding it, which increases the workload of seniors who have to review the code.

The developer also mentioned that they are now expected to do as much work in a week as they used to do in three months.

Social media users have shared similar experiences, highlighting the pressure to deliver faster and the issues with AI-generated code.