One of the only benefits of this technology is that it will expose the incompetence of management. They can’t hide their stupid now.
theyd fire all their employees and blame the comapny’s implosion on sun spots before tech execs admit their own failures. But nothing of value will be lost if nearly all tech companies went bankrupt overnight.
Oh, they will continue to hide their stupid as un-successfully as they always have. Some get away with it for a day, some for a quarter, some for many years.
This started over a year and a half ago at my company.
Over half my department was fired, and now they are forcing us to give assessments on AI tools to replace the jobs of the rest of us.
We’re so fucked, guys. This isn’t just where I work, it’s most places from what I’m hearing.
The writing was on the wall when that many layoffs happened. If they’re that willing to take that kind of risk, they’ve been on insecure financial footing for a while. Best move on ASAP.
Last time I job-hopped was when my CEO took a tour of the R&D department, chewing each of us out individually, complaining how we’re too expensive and he can’t afford us… a job offer came through the next day and I was out in 2 weeks. They asked why I was leaving, all too simple: you remember Mr. “I had a bad day in sales, so I took my insecurities out on the R&D guys” tirade? Yeah, that was a big factor.
Honestly, if there are jobs that could best be replaced by AI, it seems that management could be high on that list. I’m sure many of us have had shitty managers and know how disastrous that can be for productivity. In some cases an algorithm would definitely have done better. It could hardly have done worse.
Big organizations are constantly trying to optimize the middle layers. Do you have a 5:1 reporting ratio so the manager really knows what everybody is doing, or do you have a 25:1 reporting ratio and cut out half the layers in the “telephone” miscommunication up the chain game? Seems like AI tools could bump up the optimal ration a little, if they’re used well, but middle managers aren’t the first group I’d pick to use something like an AI agent “well.”
treating an AI as analogous to an algorithm is a giant endorsement to the AI and a massive insult to the algo’s
Company owners that were lucky enough to get a company of the ground are themselves too stupid so they put stupid people in charge to maximise profits before the company inevitably crashes and burns.
Biggest problem with this idiotic company structure is the working people that are swindled out of their hard earned money because of rules made by criminals to protect themselves and other criminals.
Only normal ones
The computer did that auto layoff thing again!
Clearly the AI needs to be trained to answer that the CEOs should be fired. They cost the most and contribute the least, especially since they have shown they’re replaceable with AI.
Last company I worked for was about 85% of phasing out HR for AI. It was a nightmare for new hires, checking benefits, changing benefits, and so on… Also it was zero tolerant in firing decisions and the humans they had left never strayed from AI’s recommendations.
They started trying w/ IT but was such a disaster the put it on the back burner.
the humans they had left never strayed from AI’s recommendations.
That’s a very real problem in all fields that take instructions from faceless machines. All the way back to Milgram.
I’m all for pushing hr out first. I mean how hard is that job anyway? Every question has the same answer: “well you should check the internal hr site.” Thanks for nothing, i did that first because it would have saved me the trouble of dealing with your useless ass. I need to understand how I can buy a new hire in india out of the waiting period from their current employer. If you would put useful things on the site, that might help, but you don’t. And then you don’t know the answer and punt to legal AGAIN. I could save us both a lot of time and talk to them directly. If your only value is being a proxy to legal, bring on the fucking ai.
If your only value is being a proxy to legal, bring on the fucking ai
Bingo
Cool fire the bosses then. The AI is doing their work anyway.
There was a funny exchange at my work where a manager AI generated a big sheet of testing specs and requirements and the engineer just ran it through AI and sent it back. Then there was a crash out where he had to justify why his action was ok but the otherside was bad.
No good point was made it was just I can do this because I’m the boss
As per the Peter Principle, ‘AI’, when used by businesses, means Amplified Incompetence.
Teachers are even using it to make coloring books of their students. Very creepy shit.
they already infiltrated YEARBOOKS, i heard some teens the other day on the bus that were complaining how creepy the yearbook was with AI in it.
Well, shit!
If only there was a whole department at schools that was made for exactly this… I heard they used to have one way back in the olden days. What would it be called? God the art of naming things is so difficult!
(Seriously, this is what happens when you defund the arts programs in education, you end up with teachers who are not trained in art doing their best… and their best is really really bad)
One of the reasons I just found a new job. Clear emails completely produced by AI and not proofread.
I had a boss once who was going down this path! She wanted to make a side-business selling AI slop videos with financial advice. I don’t know if it ever actually went anywhere. I found out she pled guilty to fraud a couple years before I started and made a hasty exit.
Hey let’s be fair here, we already had bosses barraging their employees with nonsensical directives long before LLMs lol
