Just like an AI. Instead of learning from mistakes, he repeates them, and denies any wrongdoing.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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God, this article is so full of bullshit my phone stinks. And I'm not even an AI-phobe
What if we just swap CEOs with psychopathic assholes that only... oh wait.
cool story bro
"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.
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.
They throw buzzwords
Now I understands why the CEO thinks AI could replace everybody.
"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?"
". . ."
Same reason as forcing people back into the office even though it's the solution to a number of serious issues affecting society:
Investors/banks have tons of money in these markets and are incentivizing/forces companies to adopt these policies to prop up the markets, whether it is in their interest or not.
Oh, yeah, we have that too... we want people in the office because collaboration! Synergy! etc. etc.
"How does that work if you want everyone using AI?"
". . ."
Oooo hot take time: I'd rather work in an office again than be forced to use LLMs.
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.
2. It’s about breaking the power of tech workers by reducing them from highly skilled specialists to interchangeable low-status workers whose job is to clean up botshit until it compiles. (Given that the machine does the real work and they’re just tidying up the output it generates when prompted, they naturally don’t merit high wages or indulgent perks, even if getting 30,000 lines of code regurgitated from the mashed-up contents of Github and Stack Overflow working is more cognitively tasking than writing that code from scratch would have been.)
My prediction is that it's just the latest buzzword on the pile of buzzwords and by 2028 a new one will pop up and the only time you hear "AI" will be in the line of "Hey, remember when everyone was talking about AI?"
Before AI it was "The Cloud". Before the cloud it was "Virtualization". They're saying all the same things about AI that they said about the cloud and virtualization...
I guess the real money is inventing the new buzzword that sales people can say will make your business faster, more agile, and more efficient. :)
The Cloud is still a thing though. As is virtualization
And AI (LLMs, media generation, machine learning) are going to stay a thing as well.
Yeah, but nobody talks about them solving/causing all the problems. :)
I think the next buzzword teed up is "quantum"
Yeah, it's already happening...
I think it's a real shame because all three of those things you mention are useful. The problem is that once they become a buzzword, then everything needs to be done using that buzzword.
Cloud has been misused to hell and back, and I have no doubt AI will too.
"AI-powered cloud software virtualization"
It's just Kubernetes.
You have to use AI! For what? I dunno, figure it out or you're fired! <- a genius businessman, apparently...
This blind lemming-like rush towards AI that so many CEOs seem to suffer from seriously resembles cult behavior or severe drug addiction, my god...
Nah, vulture capital.
AI always tells them what they want to hear and will make up sources ad infinitum. So unless you step outside of that bubble and search on your own, you would never know.
They are so hung up on replacing employees with AI, but they don't know how, so they force the employees to use AI, in the hope that the employee will teach the AI how to replace them
You probably don't want to work at a company like that anyway.
Or work with them. Or hire them. And I don‘t even know what they do.
They "do AI".
A lot of the large(ish) corporates are moving in this direction, including where I work. It's not unusual, I always liken large organizations to insects, just following where the others are going, and what they are doing. They don't really ever put much thought into their actions.
I think as a society we need to go through this, watching companies fail and shareholders losing their shit before the perpetrators of Assumed Intelligence end up in court.
I have mixed feelings about the employees who are caught up in this .. let's call it what it is .. scam.
It's easy to say .. you lost your job because your boss is an arsehole, but how much influence did each individual really have in the overall process?
I've been looking for the next paid challenge for five years .. well before this AI scam was perpetrated on the world. Despite having 40+ years industry experience and an aging population, my own age appears to be a barrier for the HR teams relying on the same tools that is causing them to lose their jobs.
As I said, I think this needs to blow up before it gets better, hopefully before I'm too old to do meaningful work.
replacing nearly 80% of staff
So the title seems a little misleading. Maybe even clickbaity? 😉
What happened next will SHOCK you!!