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On this week's episode of "CEO or LLM?": > "In any given quarter, there will always be some amount of de-growth. What's happening now is that de-growth is not

by RunSet 3y ago

On this week's episode of "CEO or LLM?": > "In any given quarter, there will always be some amount of de-growth. What's happening now is that de-growth is not being compensated fully because clients are optimising and there is some deferral happening," said K Krithivasan, MD & CEO, TCS. > "If the existing projects get paused or optimised more than the incoming revenue, it results in muted or moderated revenue growth," Krithivasan added. > According to Krithivasan, once things settle down, this optimisation will be compensated by new projects.

usrusr 3y ago
“Nice LLM you have there. Would be a shame if someone added CEO gibberish to the training set"
- kibwen 3y ago
  No, that's a feature. Replacing your gormless CEO with a machine is one of the highest-impact ways to leverage an LLM. Frankly, it's a shame that OpenAI is too afraid to eat their own dogfood.
londons_explore 3y ago
"optimization" means "our clients are spending less money with us".
deathtrader666 3y ago
Professionals in the software service industry have mastered the art of saying "shit has hit the roof" without any shit. This, combined with "never saying no" and "never give bad news", has twisted simple communication behaviours.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  This is the first time I have read shit has hit the roof. It is usually shit hits the fan.
ActionHank 3y ago
"degrowth" is some real BS. Actual words for this are "decline", "reduction", "shrinkage", "decrease", hell even "atrophy".
- close04 3y ago
  The goal of these words is to minimize the negative associations, or maximize the positive ones. A lot of corporate lingo is aimed at this. It's a trend that won't die (pardon, "won't un-live") because it's unreasonably effective at obscuring an otherwise bad situation. Either it leaves a better or less worse opinion of what was said compared to normal language, or it makes everything so unclear that the listener has no hopes of understanding the real, desolate, message.
  - antonvs 3y ago
    "Degrowth" is weird enough that I think it more likely calls attention to a problem than hides it.
    - aifooh7Keew6xoo 3y ago
      "degrowth" sounds like something you have a dermatologist remove from a butt cheek because it could become cancerous
  - euroderf 3y ago
    Post Traumatic Profitability Disorder
- charles_f 3y ago
  There's no degrowth in that case, tcs clearly has deinvested maintenance of its humanoid resources, resulting in deperformance, ultimately ending in the detrust of its customers, who will degive them their money, tcs deriching, and deemploying people. One can only hope those will successfully deunemploy, hopefully following the dedecline of the economy
- tw04 3y ago
lawlessone 3y ago
LLMs make more meaningful text than this
lukeinator42 3y ago
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite the quote to be more readable and this is what it came up with: "Every quarter experiences some level of decline. Currently, this decline is more noticeable because our clients are optimizing their operations and delaying certain activities, which isn't being completely offset," explained K Krithivasan, MD & CEO of TCS.
- siva7 3y ago
  Hate to say it, it's better.
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by RunSet 3y ago

usrusr 3y ago

“Nice LLM you have there. Would be a shame if someone added CEO gibberish to the training set"

kibwen 3y ago
No, that's a feature. Replacing your gormless CEO with a machine is one of the highest-impact ways to leverage an LLM. Frankly, it's a shame that OpenAI is too afraid to eat their own dogfood.

londons_explore 3y ago

"optimization" means "our clients are spending less money with us".

deathtrader666 3y ago

Professionals in the software service industry have mastered the art of saying "shit has hit the roof" without any shit. This, combined with "never saying no" and "never give bad news", has twisted simple communication behaviours.

lotsofpulp 3y ago
This is the first time I have read shit has hit the roof. It is usually shit hits the fan.

ActionHank 3y ago

"degrowth" is some real BS. Actual words for this are "decline", "reduction", "shrinkage", "decrease", hell even "atrophy".

close04 3y ago
The goal of these words is to minimize the negative associations, or maximize the positive ones. A lot of corporate lingo is aimed at this. It's a trend that won't die (pardon, "won't un-live") because it's unreasonably effective at obscuring an otherwise bad situation. Either it leaves a better or less worse opinion of what was said compared to normal language, or it makes everything so unclear that the listener has no hopes of understanding the real, desolate, message.
- antonvs 3y ago
  "Degrowth" is weird enough that I think it more likely calls attention to a problem than hides it.
  - aifooh7Keew6xoo 3y ago
    "degrowth" sounds like something you have a dermatologist remove from a butt cheek because it could become cancerous
- euroderf 3y ago
  Post Traumatic Profitability Disorder
charles_f 3y ago
There's no degrowth in that case, tcs clearly has deinvested maintenance of its humanoid resources, resulting in deperformance, ultimately ending in the detrust of its customers, who will degive them their money, tcs deriching, and deemploying people. One can only hope those will successfully deunemploy, hopefully following the dedecline of the economy
tw04 3y ago

lawlessone 3y ago

LLMs make more meaningful text than this

lukeinator42 3y ago

I asked ChatGPT to rewrite the quote to be more readable and this is what it came up with: "Every quarter experiences some level of decline. Currently, this decline is more noticeable because our clients are optimizing their operations and delaying certain activities, which isn't being completely offset," explained K Krithivasan, MD & CEO of TCS.

siva7 3y ago
Hate to say it, it's better.

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