Tim Paradis

And I wasn't there when AI coding, vibe coding, using AI to write computer code for you was popular.

But now it's kind of a fear that like AI is coming for your job in a weird way.

Sounds awful.

Let's move that into performance reviews.

Is there a world where corporations are using AI to evaluate your work and then sort of generate a performance review using all the negative things that large language models can have?

So it's possible.

You sound like my agent, but that's a conversation for another time.

Are these changes meant to help workers or are they really about like squeezing output from workers who are kind of slipping through the cracks, maybe mid-level performers to make them feel more watched, more monitored to make sure that like they're performing their best?

I know you're presenting more of a neutral kind of opinion on this.

And I see what you're saying about maybe a woman who's a coder in a male-dominated engineering environment and their boss might be a little sexist.

An AI review might give them the credit that they were being overlooked for.

Fine, that's a positive.

But like, I don't know, there's something a little dystopian about AI becoming your silent, you know, big brother, grading you at all times, grading you when you sleep, checking when you clock in.

Isn't there something not great about that?

Could companies be doing this secretly like you on your face at the end of the quarter, get your performance review in person, your boss wrote it, they talk to your peers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You get your score out of 10.

But then meanwhile, the corporation is employing like sort of a shadow review or a shadow rating where they run AI on your performance and then get a magic number.

Maybe it lines up with what you got.

Maybe it didn't.

All the while, you don't know that they're spying on you like this.