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I recently did a contract at medium sized business with a large retail and online business that had a CFO and several accountants / bookkeepers. You're describ

I recently did a contract at medium sized business with a large retail and online business that had a CFO and several accountants / bookkeepers. You're describing a situation where that CFO only needs two or three accountants and bookkeepers to run the business and would lay off two or three people. It IS about headcount in a lot of cases.

jama211 8mo ago
Or they’d keep the same number of people and increase total value output. Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all.
- catmanjan 8mo ago
  However good growth is finite unless you also believe in immigration and debt
  - jama211 8mo ago
    Well all of that is false and tbh sounds a bit sus
    - catmanjan 8mo ago
      Infinite growth is a childish belief
- oefrha 8mo ago
  People don’t suddenly eat more food due to AI. That are a lot of industries with bounded total demand.
  - jama211 8mo ago
    That’s true, however I’m truely glad 70% of the population isn’t working in food production anymore, those were the bad old times.
- Ensorceled 8mo ago
  > Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all. I would offer as counter to this view: massive layoffs across the early adopters of AI, the tech giants.
jackfranklyn 8mo ago
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- Sammi 8mo ago
  I keep seeing that small teams or individuals are getting most of the productivity gains from new ai. Small teams or individuals that learn to use ai well can outpace larger teams, even if the larger teams also use ai, because communication / coordination overhead grows faster than team size. Tasks that before needed large teams to get done, can now be done by smaller teams. Large Knowledge work teams have lost their competitive advantage. I see this as a business opportunity for small actors. Every large knowledge work team that doesn't quickly adapt and downsize itself, is now something you can disrupt as a small team or individual.

jama211 8mo ago

Or they’d keep the same number of people and increase total value output. Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all.

catmanjan 8mo ago
However good growth is finite unless you also believe in immigration and debt
- jama211 8mo ago
  Well all of that is false and tbh sounds a bit sus
  - catmanjan 8mo ago
    Infinite growth is a childish belief
oefrha 8mo ago
People don’t suddenly eat more food due to AI. That are a lot of industries with bounded total demand.
- jama211 8mo ago
  That’s true, however I’m truely glad 70% of the population isn’t working in food production anymore, those were the bad old times.
Ensorceled 8mo ago
> Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all. I would offer as counter to this view: massive layoffs across the early adopters of AI, the tech giants.

jackfranklyn 8mo ago

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Sammi 8mo ago
I keep seeing that small teams or individuals are getting most of the productivity gains from new ai. Small teams or individuals that learn to use ai well can outpace larger teams, even if the larger teams also use ai, because communication / coordination overhead grows faster than team size. Tasks that before needed large teams to get done, can now be done by smaller teams. Large Knowledge work teams have lost their competitive advantage. I see this as a business opportunity for small actors. Every large knowledge work team that doesn't quickly adapt and downsize itself, is now something you can disrupt as a small team or individual.