Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?

4-8 hrs/day depending on load. Not affected by layoffs except for an uptick in freelance gigs. Not using AI, doubt it would save any time.

A friend of mine working as a deep learning engineer at one of the big tech companies is working her ass off due to fear of layoffs. She mentioned that their manager takes quiz! from them and gives them performance tests. The vibe is incredibly tense and except a few who are working on secret projects, the rest are left hanging in a looming lay-off round.

Every day she works till late at nights or awake 5am to continue working. She now thinks that working like that over the pas few months has reduced the chances of her being laid off but she's is completely fed-up and I think she's risking having a burnout.

About 12. I'm about to go on medical leave for work related depression though so I don't recommend it...

I'm a cofounder of a Series A start-up, so work hours are hard to define. You are sort of always working or thinking about work and it is hard to put away.

But within the company, we've found lots of uses for LLMs to save time. One or two of the developers are fans of Github Copilot, but that is a relatively minor impact so far. The bigger impacts are around data cleaning and content. A lot of jobs that used to be "hire someone on Upwork for $20/hr to do a lot of boring clean-up work on thousands of records or write repetitive text about something" are now "write a 10 line python script with the OpenAI api to generate the result for $8 and then QA". There are also plenty of uses of boring old home-grown ML models and stuff like that to clean up data in cases where the problem is more specific and predictable.

So far AI just makes our best developers faster and our best product people make a larger impact more quickly and at a lower cost. It hasn't resulted in less internal hiring or anything like that. But it has resulted in less Upwork-style one-off contracting, especially around data cleaning and content clean-up.

2 times 8 hours a week, software made my life at work worse (at first it looked like a really good deal then the Government managed to convert my database software to database service with some extra responsibilities on me about uptime). The layoff wave have not touched me yet but since I'm a male Ukrainian, the danger of mobilization is hanging over me which will make my working hours 24 times 7 times 365 times life.