This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
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'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.
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.
Yes. The managers are the most replaceable.
They're too dumb to realize this, though... And they're in charge...
They're also probably the only employees who can be replaced by AI at a cost savings because of their hugely inflated compensation.
HR is there to manage benefits mostly. if the US went to medicare for all, and done away with employer sponsored health care, then a ton of HR could go away. Company culture might actually improve for once.
My partner works in HR, and from what I've heard about her stories from her job, this is nowhere near true. Anecdotal evidence, though.
There is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done. If everyone could follow simple, written and documented directions that have actual pictures about how to fill the form you have to fill, you could have a lot less HR people.
But majority of employees are not able to. They have to remind them dozens of times and chase people who didn't do it unless personally threatened. They have to constantly answer questions that are very well documented. They have to parse out information that finances should be able to access, but they need it directly copied from the systems.
It sounds like hell of a job, that would've been so much easier if people were able to follow simple instructions. And the kind of people that can't follow a step-by-step guide that had 5 notifications about needing to be done in a Slack channel won't do it if some AI is telling them to.
From what I've heard, she is just managing disasters that could be a legal problem, always chasing people who don't care about their annoying beraucracy that could cause a lot of trouble.
I have a lot more respect for HR after seeing it from the other side.
I think you might be pleasantly surprised to find that if we all just collectively agreed not to do a lot of that paperwork, absolutely nothing bad would happen.
I have worked for more than one company that had paperwork requirements that, once traced down, had their causes and effects commingled and were a self-perpetuating problem that was causing itself.
Surely some paperwork and documentation is important and serves a purpose that justifies the nuisance, but a good deal of it does not, and it could simply disappear if we could dispense with our collective obsession to document irrelevant information simply because it exists.
That sounds like a self-created problem. Other than joining and leaving, I have had to fill out very little HR paperwork in my career.
Fair enough. I suppose I'm showing my bias. The only time I ever deal with HR is for open enrollment.
True, but I still think there would be plenty for HR to be mediating in terms of employee-to-employee relationships. However, it's a big ask for HR to stop being a "cover your ass" department that is otherwise dedicated to making sure things like sexual harassment and hostile workplace environments don't impact the company itself despite existing in the company all the same.
It’s okay, they will need all the devs they can get when they realise how much AI has messed up their codebases lol
Like how Ford just had to hire back all their old greybeard engineers after the AI was not actually up to snuff (shocker).
Not all. Just a select few. To help the AI.
Indeed, but lets see how this story develops. I've done my share of messing up repos with genAI, plus have some background in ML... these gives me the intuition that hiring back seniors to "fix the AI" is not going to cut it.
Well capitalism is darwinistic. They'll probably disappear.
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.
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.
I'm all for pushing hr out first. I mean how hard is that job anyway? Every question has the same answer: "well you should check the internal hr site." Thanks for nothing, i did that first because it would have saved me the trouble of dealing with your useless ass. I need to understand how I can buy a new hire in india out of the waiting period from their current employer. If you would put useful things on the site, that might help, but you don't. And then you don't know the answer and punt to legal AGAIN. I could save us both a lot of time and talk to them directly. If your only value is being a proxy to legal, bring on the fucking ai.
If your only value is being a proxy to legal, bring on the fucking ai
Bingo
Cool fire the bosses then. The AI is doing their work anyway.
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.
Teachers are even using it to make coloring books of their students. Very creepy shit.
they already infiltrated YEARBOOKS, i heard some teens the other day on the bus that were complaining how creepy the yearbook was with AI in it.
Well, shit!
If only there was a whole department at schools that was made for exactly this... I heard they used to have one way back in the olden days. What would it be called? God the art of naming things is so difficult!
(Seriously, this is what happens when you defund the arts programs in education, you end up with teachers who are not trained in art doing their best... and their best is really really bad)
Am a boss. No we aren't.
I use it to interrogate our wikis and SharePoint, sprint data. It keeps me from having to ask my employees dumb questions.
I use it to dig up info on stuff I don't know about so I can make informed decisions or reduce the length of meeting because I can come prepared.
People love to talk about slop like it is something new and can only be made by ai. Spoiler, people (such as the author of this dumb piece) have been making it for a long time.
If you are looking up something you don't know about, how do you know the info provided us correct?
Spot on. It eliminates some tedious busywork, which is nice, but it’s not a game changer for me, at least not yet.
Hey let's be fair here, we already had bosses barraging their employees with nonsensical directives long before LLMs lol
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.
Company owners that were lucky enough to get a company of the ground are themselves too stupid so they put stupid people in charge to maximise profits before the company inevitably crashes and burns.
Biggest problem with this idiotic company structure is the working people that are swindled out of their hard earned money because of rules made by criminals to protect themselves and other criminals.
Only normal ones
