That New 'AI Assistant' Is Your Boss Now

''' Remember your job description? The one you interviewed for? The one that outlined your skills, your craft, your responsibilities?

Me neither.

Because in the last year, it feels like every knowledge worker in the country has had their job description rewritten by stealth, by a piece of software nobody asked for. It didn’t happen in a big meeting. There was no formal announcement. It just arrived one Tuesday morning as a pop-up: "Say hello to your new AI assistant!"

And just like that, your new boss is an algorithm.

The Great Unsolicited Promotion

Let’s be honest. This isn’t a promotion. This is a demotion masquerading as innovation. You, the seasoned graphic designer, are now tasked with generating fifty near-identical logos on Adobe Firefly and then spending hours trying to wrangle one of them into something that doesn’t look like generic corporate sludge. You, the skilled copywriter, are now handed seven pages of incoherent nonsense from a language model and told to "edit" it into a "blog post."

This isn’t editing. Editing is taking a thoughtful draft and making it better. This is linguistic janitorial work. It’s cleaning up a digital mess made by a machine that has no concept of tone, truth, or what makes a sentence sing.

They call it "efficiency." A lovely, sterile word. It’s what they sell to the people in the C-suite who don’t do the actual work. "Look how much content we can produce!" they trumpet. But they don