Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI".

[otherdog@mastodon.social]

@glyph Thank you for sharing that, a very thought-provoking read.

[carstenschridde@norden.social]

@tante could you please write an essay about this top, i really need to read it!

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@jaredwhite @tante why wouldn't they? The people who bullshit for a living are (ironically) not threatened, they're having the time of their lives instead

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@glyph @tante I had to walk away from being an information architect because everyone wants to pivot to ai, when there is no such thing. I specialize creating information flows that get the right information to the right people. C-suite doesn’t need code docs, and SRE doesn’t need customer service scripts. But all aspects of an enterprise needs documentation for some user in the enterprise. Someone has to create the documentation, map the information, define users, create channels, etc.

Csuite seems to think that it’s magic. That an LLM can talk to both code creators and end users and define requirements from those interviews, and document both the code base, the user docs, the service docs, the marketing docs, etc, and they can just get rid of the tech writers, marketing writers, graphic designers, usability designers, and the people that manage those teams. I mean, good luck with that.

[arrrg@kolektiva.social]

@tante @glyph I've come to realize that the "leaders" in most companies are mostly people who can't build, who aren't creative, and lack any truly marketable skills. They're good at making other executives feel good about themselves.

Most, if not all, companies would be better off without any executives, but rather they are run by a committee of employees.

These little cults of personalities that corporatedom creates are highly ineffective and prone to eradicate and unpredictable results.

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@olafke @tante When the goal of every new company is to get purchased by a bigger company, end stage capitalism is eating itself.

[pathunstrom@ngmx.com]

@glyph @tante I'm literally the last MIS major at my college, we had to pull my course requirements from the school archives when it was time to graduate.

Business as an industry was training people to have exactly that skill set, and then just stopped ~15 years ago.

(Mostly, the position got replaced by analysts or data scientists as close as I can tell.)

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@tante Truly, they're the real problem behind all this... It never would have even reached this point without their complete inability to live inside reality due I suppose to the complete disconnect with the real world all that money seems to give them. The scam would have fallen short positively ages ago and it never even would have been pushed on people in the first place.

[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

@tante All in the name of "efficiency" and maximum profits. Number must go up up up! idk.

What I do know is that CEO's are usually out of touch with reality, same with rich people as well.

[richrarobi@mastodon.social]

@tante @glyph

Mostly 'Managers' don't have a clue.
Sales run rings round them, with half truths and promises.
Tech-Staff have to clean up the mess, underpaid,
often without adequate training.

It is the history of #britain , the charge of the light brigade enacted time after time, Tommy Atkins in the trenches, the many wounded in the Boer War

Incompetence of management. Upper class twits.
Thin red line, you aren't allowed to duck.

AI will fail eventually - bad management

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@tante I struggle to remember a time in my life when CEOs were "okay"

but what's goin on right now, phew

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@emma @tante

In #australia the #actu the peak #union body has betrayed it's members by signing a deal with #microslop just as they fired 15,000 public servants, due to #ai encroachment.

I've done some work analysing the betrayal by the union.
#regulateai #unionstrong

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@otherdog @glyph @tante you cannot even *do* cost analysis at this point because AI companies are deeply in the red, so whatever prices we have now are clearly just made-up numbers completely detached from the real costs involved with AI

[dysco@kolektiva.social]

@tante
"workers council" (very Soviet/Debord)

[skjeggtroll@mastodon.online]

@tante

I'm genuinely starting to wonder if not LinkedIn has a significant share of the blame for this. There is a certain strain of brain-rot (not just related to AI) that seems to have unreasonably prevalent in management, and I'm not sure what other contamination vector there might be.

[sandzwerg@chaos.social]

@tante Goals for this year from the top: everyone should use AI. We shall find at least one good use case for AI per team. So much bullshit.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@tante
The people most likely to be destabilized by LLMs are the people most insulated from contradiction, and executives are professionally insulated from contradiction.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@SnoopJ @aud @tante there so many people who are really, actually offering incentives and bonuses for *token use* though. Like it's not just a thing that is happening somewhere, it seems to be one of the more *common* mechanisms.

I was sure when I first heard about this that it must be some kind of self-dealing kickback scam? But as far as I can tell… no? It's just a thing that managers *actually* think is a good idea? Literally incentivizing direct waste by employees

[patrickleavy@mastodon.social]

@ehproque @jaredwhite @tante I've read some messed up stuff today - but this could be the most terrifying.

[slotos@toot.community]

@tante I can’t get an answer to a simple question for the last few months: „what’s the goal and how will you know we’ve achieved it specifically thanks to AI?”

Because if the work I’ve been doing to remove obstacles to productivity for the last year and a half will get attributed to this bullshit, I’ll start complying maliciously.