Well, I haven’t died yet, so…

Taxes. I had a handful of stock events last year, and it’s always a massive pain to try to transcribe the values in the forms they give you into the tax tools.

I use it to write my PR descriptions, generate class and method docstrings, notate code I’m trying to grok or translate, etc and so forth. I don’t even use it to actually generate code, and it still saves me likely a couple hours a week.

Do the job? No. Noticeably increase productivity, and reduce time spent on menial tasks? Yes.

I suspect the layoffs are partly motivated by the expectation that remaining workers will be able to handle a larger workload with the help of AI.

US companies in particular are also heavily outsourcing jobs overseas, for cheaper. They just don’t like to be transparent about that aspect, so the AI excuse takes the focal point.

So this is what else you’re lying about?

Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don’t have more than one.