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Can the AI find alternative suppliers when your current ones go out of business or closes down production lines (even just for short term re-tooling)? Can AI ne

Can the AI find alternative suppliers when your current ones go out of business or closes down production lines (even just for short term re-tooling)? Can AI negotiate when you get a big sale and need a huge production run? There are so many moving parts that a human juggles, more than what you list. All AI solutions seem like this. Automate the day to day duties of a job, when the real value of the person doing the jobs are much more than that. Maybe you can automate away 2 purchasing jobs down to 1, but what happens when that 1 person gets sick, when they go on vacation, when they retire/move to a better job? And the sick thing is that the company that tries to be smart longer term won't be able to compete with the short term companies that cut as much as possible using AI to maximize short term benefits. Long term these 'cut everything' AI leaning zombie companies won't last, but they will last long enough to undercut and take out the longer term thinking companies with them. AI is an entropy machine. It sucks all momentum from everything it touches.

cindyllm 1y ago
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potato3732842 1y ago
That's like saying machines are bad because people still hand excavate ditches in the last couple feet near utilities. You are missing the point. Anyone who can do the full job isn't missing anything by skipping the drudgery. Every task the AI can juggle for you is one you don't have to. If your department goes from 4 to 3 great, if it goes from 2-1 or 1-0 that's fine too. Companies already exist at those numbers. You can think about it in terms of "a company can now be bigger before they need a dedicated person/team for job X" if that helps take the emotion out.
- _DeadFred_ 1y ago
  There's zero emotion, no need to manipulate via injecting language like that. Companies that can benefit from these sorts of purchasing use cases don't exist at 0. And at 1, this is already a minimal need so not useful. Past 2, and you need 2 staff anyways from reasons listed and more, so AI doesn't give a cost benefit, but it does introduce all kinds of risk (there's a lot more than just comparing SKUs) and weaken relationship with supplies, which can kill a company. Just doesn't make sense all around.

cindyllm 1y ago

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potato3732842 1y ago

That's like saying machines are bad because people still hand excavate ditches in the last couple feet near utilities. You are missing the point. Anyone who can do the full job isn't missing anything by skipping the drudgery. Every task the AI can juggle for you is one you don't have to. If your department goes from 4 to 3 great, if it goes from 2-1 or 1-0 that's fine too. Companies already exist at those numbers. You can think about it in terms of "a company can now be bigger before they need a dedicated person/team for job X" if that helps take the emotion out.

_DeadFred_ 1y ago
There's zero emotion, no need to manipulate via injecting language like that. Companies that can benefit from these sorts of purchasing use cases don't exist at 0. And at 1, this is already a minimal need so not useful. Past 2, and you need 2 staff anyways from reasons listed and more, so AI doesn't give a cost benefit, but it does introduce all kinds of risk (there's a lot more than just comparing SKUs) and weaken relationship with supplies, which can kill a company. Just doesn't make sense all around.