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Most companies using AI are just paying for a subscription. They aren't actually building LLMs or other machine learning applications that take over a known tas
by firefoxd 1y ago
Most companies using AI are just paying for a subscription. They aren't actually building LLMs or other machine learning applications that take over a known task. You could easily replace the term AI with just subscription.
When they say they are laying off workers, they are saying "we signed up for Cursor, and enabled some AI features on Jira and Salesforce"
The layoff is just an excuse until they realize that just because Jira can write a summary of the ticket, doesn't mean the ticket gets done any faster.
- GolfPopper 1y agoAnd keep in mind that while the company may care about its overall efficiency, its individual organs only care about their internal incentives. If the LLM gets the ticket out of someone's area of responsibility faster, why do they care if that makes it harder for someone else?
- sublinear 11mo agoThe AI doesn't make anything harder for the people downstream. If anything it gives all the people downstream more power. The power to justifiably ignore the AI summary and do whatever they originally wanted as they see fit. This makes the people upstream even more obviously redundant than they already were before all the AI slop. The downstream people picking up the slack are effectively promoted. This is pretty much the definition of a layoff. It's just a different and much more streamlined way this time to weed out the losers. The top AI users within an organization hang themselves by proving they're not needed. The system works.