Tim Paradis

So some bosses may not care at all that you're using ChatGP to do this thing, or they want you to be using coding assistants and they'll ding you if you don't do it because they know that you could be so much more productive.

And I wouldn't say probably, you know, I talk to some tech employees pretty regularly.

I wouldn't say all of them are shocks, but I think to your point, it's really about where they've come from, which was there used to be more autonomy.

There used to be more of this notion of let's get a bunch of geniuses in the room and let them create.

Whereas now, if you're going to say, we need to make sure you're here

on the premises from this time to this time.

You can't just coffee badge, as they call it, or you can't just hop in and out.

It feels that extra sobriety maybe just feels new for tech, but it's certainly not new, to your point, about many, many other industries, nor is it that have always been that way, right?

I mean, I think that that's probably a question that's even beyond tech.

We saw an announcement last week from the Citigroup CEO talking about this is the year of really stepping it up.

And so it's not just in Silicon Valley, but it's this idea that, again, because employers have the upper hand,

particularly for these desk jobs, these white-collar jobs, they can simply demand more.

And they're just not going to meet much resistance because what can people do?

They know it's a tough job market.

I mean, nothing jumps to mind

At the second, but I would say, I guess you see this in industries as they get larger and mature.

I think in the early days, if you talk to anybody who was in the early days of any kind of field, they'll often talk about, you know, as we would say here in the U.S., like wild west of this.

And there was a lot of, you know, it's kind of freewheeling and we didn't have all these parameters and it was a lot less buttoned down than it is now.

I think that's just the nature of how industries evolve sometimes and certainly as they become more.

more corporate and then you have investors that you're answering to uh you've got cfos to your point earlier paying you know why are we paying these brilliant guys and your poor friend the barista who no longer has a job like you know why are we doing this kind of stuff if we could be a little bit more like company x over in you know manufacturing that this has a uh you know again a more restrained approach to how they spend money did you talk to a tech executive who said that productivity can't be assumed anymore