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How misinformed do you have to be to think that you can just wake up one day and replace 8000 people with “AI“? What does that even mean? Instead of doing that
by xenospn 2y ago
How misinformed do you have to be to think that you can just wake up one day and replace 8000 people with “AI“? What does that even mean?
Instead of doing that, you should probably fire and replace the person who suggested that in the first place.
- steveBK123 2y agoLot of CTOs about to lose their jobs if true
- xenospn 2y agoFor good reason
- LiquidSky 2y agoIt’s long been the dream of management to run the company without those pesky employees. I imagine a good bit of the current AI hype bubble is due to that dream.
- nine_zeros 2y agoThe perfect widget will get produced automatically, serving all customer needs. Customers will be supported automatically. Outages will be fixed automatically. All I do is press a button and collect MRR.
- heraldgeezer 2y agoI have had this feeling since I started working... Nobody actually wants employees.
- kibwen 2y agoFor some extremely peculiar and entirely ineffable reason, executives don't seem to be considering the possibility of replacing themselves with AI.
- bee_rider 2y agoCurrently LLM’s have pretty limited context windows and limited ability to come up with brand new ideas, right? But they do write very confidently. So they’ll have to find some people at the company whose main contribution is contextless repetitive pablum, empty phrases expressed with great vigor and confidence. Preferably someone highly paid. Surely nobody like that is working there…
- anticorporate 2y agoI bet you could even use an LLM to analyze the work output of different groups within a company and see whose output most closely matches that of an LLM. Hint: Those people won't have words like "content" "editor" "writer" or "documentation" in their title. They will, though, likely have words like "director" and "vice president" in there somewhere.
- bee_rider 2y agoHaha. In general, I’m trying very hard to not see jobs I don’t understand as easily replaced by LLMs. Everyone thinks somebody else can be, right? But I would be fascinated to see a company with the higher levels replaced by LLMs. Like a union or guild where the members are actually voting on the real decisions, and the LLMs handle summarizing these decisions and building narratives. No idea of it would work. Might still need a human CEO. Would be interesting to see, though.
- rpcope1 2y agoBesides the obvious, you could honestly replace a huge amount of the horrendous documentation (50%+ of it is just carefully camouflaged marketing fluff anyways) for a large number of IBM products with the hallucinations of an LLM and be no worse off.