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Isn't this enough proof that these chucklefucks are a drain on company resources and time and the FIRST thing to replace AI with is the bosses so workers can organize collectively while the AI helps them stay organized without the AI being in control.

I mean, I guess that would make too much sense.

Genuinely though, if the first thing they do with AI is outsource their own decision making, isn't it just rock solid evidence that these people are useless at their fucking jobs to begin with? They aren't even making the decisions anymore, the AI is. Let's cut out the middleman, which is all a boss is now if AI is running the show. I mean, it's what they did with all the junior developers, because they had forced the juniors into using AI and then asked themselves "why not cut out the middleman." And they hadn't even considered that maybe the cost of AI would outpace the cost of an employee. How the fuck are these short term thinking idiots in fucking charge anyway? A lot of bosses are just fucking charlatans.

EDIT: Clarified first sentence.

The boss at a place I used to work is all in on AI bullshit. My friend works for the company remotely. He says the boss sends him massively long email, constructed by AI, full of rambling half ideas. He said he used to try to pick through it and reply appropriately and professionally. The boss would feed that into AI and copy/paste the reply back.

Now my friend doesn't even read the email. He throws it into AI, tells AI to craft a well thought out reply, and just sends that back at the boss. He told me if the boss won't personally read and reply, he won't either.

Last time I talked with him he said the email chain has been going over 4 months, it's still going on, but he has no idea what it's about anymore.

Last company I worked for was about 85% of phasing out HR for AI. It was a nightmare for new hires, checking benefits, changing benefits, and so on... Also it was zero tolerant in firing decisions and the humans they had left never strayed from AI's recommendations.

They started trying w/ IT but was such a disaster the put it on the back burner.

Clearly the AI needs to be trained to answer that the CEOs should be fired. They cost the most and contribute the least, especially since they have shown they're replaceable with AI.

Cool fire the bosses then. The AI is doing their work anyway.

"I'm sure enough people don't compliment you for your courage and insight, but this is truly an amazing question. And being able to ask, "I have no idea what I'm doing , how do I not ruin everything and embarrass myself in front of my frat bros that I hired as VPs?" is so brave and it also shows just how humble you are to be open to learning even though you are at the absolute top of your field!"

When you're so obsessed with getting LLMs to replace your employees that you end up using it to replace you.

Honestly, if there are jobs that could best be replaced by AI, it seems that management could be high on that list. I'm sure many of us have had shitty managers and know how disastrous that can be for productivity. In some cases an algorithm would definitely have done better. It could hardly have done worse.

I had a boss once who was going down this path! She wanted to make a side-business selling AI slop videos with financial advice. I don't know if it ever actually went anywhere. I found out she pled guilty to fraud a couple years before I started and made a hasty exit.

One of the only benefits of this technology is that it will expose the incompetence of management. They can't hide their stupid now.

So, basically shitty bosses are shitty?

"Reverse centaur"

(According to Cory Doctorow, a 'centaur' is a human augmented by tech, and a 'reverse centaur' is a human who is a mere meaty appendage to a tech system)

Sounds like the bosses positions should be cut then. If the default is ai then let the ai. No need for those positions and there I saved you a bunch of money.

This started over a year and a half ago at my company.

Over half my department was fired, and now they are forcing us to give assessments on AI tools to replace the jobs of the rest of us.

We're so fucked, guys. This isn't just where I work, it's most places from what I'm hearing.

There is a premade meal delivery service with possibly the best product right now on the market. Unfortunately after I did a deep dive on them to figure out why their customer service sucked so much, I found the head of their "customer experience" had liked/heart emoji'd these two AI companies.

After telling my experience to another dev, they noticed an advert by an AI company boasting how they provided an service for them.

For tech savy people, the heart of the problem is because they used the user email address as the primary key in multiple places. So not only a varchar primary key but a natural one to boot! Not even a drop in the bucket but they lost ~10K USD of revenue for what should have been a 1 minute begin; update... SQL command by the DBA. Though the large amounts of AI makes me think they fucked themselves on that too. Another reason I suspect that; they had a data breach at the start of the month but haven't made a public statement or warned their customers. Might not even know, might not know how it happened, and how much was stolen.

Hey let's be fair here, we already had bosses barraging their employees with nonsensical directives long before LLMs lol

I'm so glad I don't work anymore.

There was a funny exchange at my work where a manager AI generated a big sheet of testing specs and requirements and the engineer just ran it through AI and sent it back. Then there was a crash out where he had to justify why his action was ok but the otherside was bad.

No good point was made it was just I can do this because I'm the boss