Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels. They were the “most resistant,” he said, voicing various concerns about what the AI couldn’t do, rather than focusing on what it could. The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.
Imagine that.
CEO of enterprise-software powerhouse IgniteTech.
Can someone tell me what they do? They don't have a Wikipedia Article and their website is mostly AI slop.
They throw buzzwords at venture capitalists in hopes of one day selling out.
After grilling their silly LLM for a while, I was able to squeeze out what that company really is all about. They don’t really make anything. They just buy miscellaneous software companies, and turn those apps into subscription based cloud cancer. Enterprise software meets maximum enshittification, yeah baby!
Ah, so removing employees from this dumpster fire was a net positive for society.
I think only bankruptcy is the net positive, as long as they don’t stiff legitimate creditors.
No don't you see - fewer employees means there's less of anything getting done, and this company is just a parasite that produces nothing of value.
They throw buzzwords
Now I understands why the CEO thinks AI could replace everybody.
"Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels."
So the people that understood it best were sceptical, and this didn't give him pause.
Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?
Because they try the tools, realize that their job is pretty much covered by LLMs and think it's the same for everyone.
Technical staff were skeptical because they actually know what AI can and can't do reliably in production environments - it's good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistancy.
So it's the CEO they should replace.
it’s good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistency.
Thank goodness nobody is crusading to have AI take over medicine.
They're easily conned and they love yes men.
The bullshitters were quick to adopt the bullshit factory.
Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?
$$$$$$$
AIs are cheaper than humans.
Not really. Because they don't work and then they have to hire more humans which is more expensive than just keeping them on for the 6 months it'll take for the CEOs to realise that.
Cheaper NOW, when OpenAI operates at huge loss
Just like an AI. Instead of learning from mistakes, he repeates them, and denies any wrongdoing.
"You're Absolutely right!"
Because he asks the ai what's best but the chatbot always treats it as a loaded question and it wants to be seen as helpful so it finds a way to agree yes-man style.
Today, I ran into a bug. We're being encouraged to use AI more so I asked copilot why it failed. I asked without really looking at the code. I tried multiple times and all AI could say was 'yep it shouldn't do that' but didn't tell me why. So, gave up on copilot and looked at the code. It took me less than a minute to find the problem.
It was a switch statement and the case statement had (not real values) what basically reads as ' variable' == 'caseA' or 'caseB'. Which will return true... Which is the bug. Like I'm stripping a bunch of stuff away but co-pilot couldn't figure out that the case statement was bad.
AI is quickly becoming the biggest red flag. Fast slop, is still slop.
"Doing Our Part to Make the World a Greener Place"
Clown company. You can't promote AI and do a claim like that at the same time.
By accelerating the collapse of a human survivable ecosystem we will bring about the end of humanity, resulting in a greener environment for the handful of surviving species.
Late stage capitalism rewards management for any appearance of change. It really doesn't matter whether the results of that change are good or bad. And even a CEO who keeps destroying companies can always find a similar position elsewhere. The feedback loop is hopelessly broken.
That CEO:
Has ai ever disagreed with anyone? That's probably why it's so popular with rich 'people'
Granted, my ideas are all baller as fuck. But still..
Those people don’t hear no often…
Does he still have a company at all?
This type of shortsightedness should be punished. I mean AI can be useful for certain tasks but it’s still just a tool. It’s like these CEOs were just introduced to a screwdriver and he’s trying use it for everything.
“Look employees, you can use this new screwdriver thing to brush your teeth and wipe your ass. “
You can use this new screwdriver to fuck yourself. We’re working late boys!
"The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added."
https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg#t=13s
I see the same push where I work and I cannot get a good answer to the most basic question:
"Why?"
"We want more people using AI."
"Why?"
". . ."
"The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added."
[sigh] Because of course they were. Those people couldn't find their own arses even if they used both hands.
I usually ignore these kind of trends. Just meet any required deadlines etc but don't engage too much. The vast majority will just disappear.
Specifically as a software developer I cannot see a good outcome from engaging with this trend either. It's going to go one of two ways.
1: It pans out sooner rather than later that AI wasn't the panacea they thought it was, and it either is forgotten about, or becomes a set of realized tools we use, but don't rely on.
2: They believe it can replace us all, and so they replace us all with freshly graduated vibe "programmers" and I don't have a job anyway.
I don't really see an upside to engaging with this in any kind of long term plan.
Of course he would. He could probably give hitler lessons on oven design.
As a paid, captive squirrel, focusing on spinning my workout wheel and getting my nuts at the end of the day, I hate that AI is mostly a (very expensive) solution in search of a problem. I am being told "you must use AI, find a way to use it" but my AI successes are very few and mostly non-repeatable (my current AI use case is: "try it once for non-vital, not time-sensitive stuff, if at first you don't succeed, just give up, if you succeed, you saved some time for more important stuff").
If I try to think as a CEO or an entrepreneur, though, I sort of see where these people might be coming from. They see AI as the new "internet", something that for good or bad is getting ingrained in everything we do and that will cause your company to go bankrupt for trying too hard to do things "the new way" but also to quickly fade to irrelevance if you keep doing things in the same way.
It's easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to say now "haha, Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 Millions and now they are out of business", but all these people who have seen it happen are seeing AI as the new disruptive technology that can spell great success or complete doom for their current businesses. All hype? Maybe. But if I was a CEO I'd be probably sweating too (and having a couple of VPs at my company wipe up the sweat with dollar bills)
I'm working in a small software development company. We're exploring AI. It's not being pushed without foundation.
There's no need to commit when you don't even know what you're committing to, disregarding cost and risk. It just doesn't make sense. We should expect better from CEOs than emotionally following a fear of missing out without a reasonable assessment.
The only difference between AI and NFTs is that the market believes in it.
God, this article is so full of bullshit my phone stinks. And I'm not even an AI-phobe
One little thing AI can't do is probably the reason why I also use AI with caution. I use it for all the bullshit emails and communication I have to keep doing just to stay employed. But there's this one little trick it can't do. Sure it can summarize a resume or a book or give me the equation to calculated the size of Pythagora'ss triangular dick. But the one little thing it really can't do is thinking. AI can't think and come up with original content. It can only mimic and regurgitate old ideas and thoughts, not new ones.
You can ask it to synthesis information. More specially you can ask it to compare the data and ask to give examples of other things that share the same attributes as the other 2. Also, if I’m painting I sometimes ask about color, but I just got a color wheel.
What if we just swap CEOs with psychopathic assholes that only... oh wait.
One guy is like "Friday is forced AI 'training' day" (as if one must 'train' to write prompts. Using natural language rather than a unique language or syntax and trusting the computer to make a comprehensible and accurate output is the whole point), and then he has the gall to claim "turns out people hate learning!"
Writing prompts is definitely a thing users must learn to do properly, to get the right results.
But anyways, any company that fires people in favor of AI is only digging their own grave anyways. I personally believe AI (of which LLM is only a small part) can definitely serve as an automation tool that can increase output. Great companies will use this tech to give their employees more time to work on things that are meaningful to the company, that the AI cannot do. For instance, a company could free up some time of highly skilled engineers to help a couple hours a week on the most complicated service desk issues to increase customer satisfaction. Or the LLM can create more time for sales to have meetings with customers, instead of doing admin they already hate, etc... Use it to grow, not to shrink.
Besides, if your company can be completely run by AI anyways, then congratulations, you just reached the end goal of open sourcing your company. Because why the heck won't anyone be able to replicate that quickly?
Besides, if your company can be completely run by AI anyways, then congratulations, you just reached the end goal of open sourcing your company. Because why the heck won't anyone be able to replicate that quickly?
Yeah that's the thing these tech bros never seem to understand. It's obviously not going to work because if it did work it would have already been done by somebody else, it's called the Law Of Mediocrity. It's simply requires the base assumption that you are not the smartest person in the universe, which of course is where it all falls down, because they always assume they are.
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