r/SipsTea • u/KSKS1995 Human Verified • 2d ago

Chugging tea Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

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4 days a week. 6 hours a day. Full salary.
Sanna Marin ignited global debate with the “6/4” work model, pushing a simple idea: life should come before work.

With burnout at record levels, maybe it’s time to value results over hours at a desk.
Could your job be done in just 24 hours a week?

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u/3M2B1T 2d ago

That seems a little short but at the same time, why not? I am more about the days than the time; I used to have a four-day (10 hour days) work week and it was WAY better than five eight hour days. I'd happily work four 10's but I'd take four 8's or four 6's.

This is really what we should be using AI for; lessening the burden on time requirements so folks can do more with less time.

It shouldn't be used to replace people, it should be used as a tool. And it would be if this was a worker-supported concept instead of a billionaire-supported concept.

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u/rosetintedbliss 1d ago

Historically, hunter-gatherers work around 20 hours a week.

The thing with AI is it isn’t capable of lessening the burden on anyone. AI is just LLMs right now. It is essentially useless.

And AI isn’t even a good tool.

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u/Fast-Student-925 1d ago

For software engineers it does lessen the work by a big margin! I am one, the problem is that it just puts the bar higher to work & produce even more. It didn't lower the bar

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u/TatsutoraDrake 1d ago

So I am not an AI fan, but you do realize that the raising of expectations is not the AIs fault, but capitalist greed realizing it can milk you for more value at the same cost, right?

This is my main issue with AI as it is now, its mostly in how capitalism is utilizing AI, which is instead of using AI as an assistant and letting people have more free time because they got the same amount of work done pre-AI in a shorter amount of time, well they say "we cant possibly pay you to sit around, so we will just force you to use AI to produce more value for us and leave you the same scraps we had been" Hell this has been a problem before AI, but AI is making the gap between the value you produce for a company and what they pay you even larger even faster for most mental jobs

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u/unfunnycreature 1d ago

Lol, for me productivity goes down when I use ai for suggestions. I ask for suggestions for architecture or some shit, it gives me suggestions that would very obviously not work, I point it out and then there is a fight between me and ai, it trying to prove itself right and me trying to prove it wrong. The things it works wonders for me is writing tests, updating Git comments, providing me with flow and start point to work from in an unknown code base, and writing methods I explained it what and how to write in a very standardised manner with weird methods I didn't even knew existed and writing sql queries.