I’m God’s most powerful anti-AI hater and have the capacity for morality so this ain’t it folks
If AI is so fucking transformative why do we need to be compelled to use it
Hey are we even breaking even? Like all the devs I talk to about it go “yeah it’s ok but you spend about as much time fixing what it gives you as you would writing it yourself”. Can you imagine the business acumen it takes to have your devs take as much time as usual but also pay OpenAI a royalty for use of their text extrusion machine? And having it assist the HR department? Legal? All it’s good for is finding a polite way to tell someone they’re fired or communicate absolutely nothing behind sixty layers of corporate executive jargon.
I saw this with a member of the Global Leadership team at work recently, and the appeal of AI to the executive class made sense.
All they do is write reports and presentations. That’s what AI is good at since it’s just a text extrusion machine, and the documents these people ask it to make are very generic and could just be templated.
But they feel better thinking they got AI to generate an original report for them instead of filling in the blanks in a word doc on the intranet.
It saves them time and makes them feel important, so they think it can do the same for everyone else. They don’t realise some people need to actually get things right, or need to do things so specific an AI couldn’t just fill in the blanks for them.
This right here.
Story time: a former coworker told me the story of when he decided to leave business consulting for anything that did not involve corpos. He did a lot of extra hours into a supposedly important report that was to be read in a meeting over the weekend. Upon delivering it, his boss read it for 10 seconds and put it in the shredder right away, with a malicious grin.
Most of corporate “work” is basically corporate courting, with its own set of meaningless rituals. Unfortunately Graber isn’t here to expand on it, but for whoever feels like it, IMHO this idea would be a nice follow-up to BS Jobs.