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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again (fortune.com)
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“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like the guy with the carbon fiber submarine. Every engineer told him it couldn't be done, so he kept firing them until he had a staff of young, inexperienced engineers who would do what they were told, and just collect their paychecks.

Now their boss is dead, and there are no more paychecks.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well at least that problem fixed itself.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago

I wished more of society's problems were solved that way, with the guy responsible for such a stupid concept paying the ultimate price for his arrogance.