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My lemma: “No one thinks their direct reports can be replaced by AI. Everyone thinks their direct reports’ reports can be replaced by AI.”
by cgio 1y ago
My lemma: “No one thinks their direct reports can be replaced by AI. Everyone thinks their direct reports’ reports can be replaced by AI.”
- ctkhn 1y agoAs one of those reports' reports, I have noticed that these decision maker business types love AI for their own job too. A teammate had to email another department for approval on some infra and our manager's manager told him to run it through our firm's proprietary LLM to touch it up when it was essentially "I'm on team X and we need approval to use Y for Z, is that ok?" Makes me wonder what is even going on in her brain if she thought something so simple needed an AI touchup.
- cgio 1y agoThat’s how we decision makers tell each other we are transforming our teams to AI first ;-). Touching up a text is literally the shallowest way to apply AI, so it figures. The schizophrenic practice of asking for AI savings and cutting based on spans of control is an indication of how even big players, that previously had team topology maturity, such as Amazon, are losing the script.
- ctkhn 1y agoWe had a chat where the text touch up director was asking all her teams to bump up test coverage using copilot except our team is already very well covered so our team hasn't really contributed. But the other teams with 40% ish are asked to submit their "prompt of the week" and every time it's longer and more convoluted than just writing out unit tests. Really incredible stuff. Also what do you mean re team topology maturity?
- cgio 1y agoTeam topology is a fancy way to describe span of control and team structure.