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Forced transition to GenAI tools changing core job responsibilities

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 4/5

A software developer and DBA with three decades of experience reports that their employer is mandating the use of GenAI tools, effectively shifting their role from hands-on technical work to managing AI agents, and they are unsure if this constitutes a material change in job role that allows them to refuse the new duties without facing disciplinary action.

Who's affected: A long-tenured software developer and DBA whose employer has been acquired by a larger company.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

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  3. A community-driven database tracking company policies on mandatory AI adoption to help employees assess their rights during corporate acquisitions.
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Real voices

“being forced to be a prompt engineer instead of a programmer-come-DBA represents a material change to my role”

Source: Stack Exchange (workplace) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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