AI expected to create efficiencies
Couldn’t help but chuckle at that bullet point. We should know by now that AI creates lots of cognitive debt and unstable, vibe-coded software, as well as making people stupid. But one thing it absolutely doesn’t seem to do is make things more efficient long term.
See we replaced people with costs to run virtual people that would make oracle blush. Are the virtual people any good? Goodness no.
Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That’s progress, right? Right?
Through great effort we have molded this once analog curiosity into a digital ouroboros… to very nearly duplicate Kyle from accounting!
… Admittedly this would be the Kyle following the unfortunate kick to the head from that clydesdale.
Nevermind that! We’ve gone ahead and laid off the rest off accounting and now Kyle² is wielding immesurable power to… Oh. Oh dear.
Layoffs aren’t caused by AI efficiency. It’s the reverse. Layoffs and other aggressive cost-cutting cause CEOs to blather about future AI efficiencies.
Efficiency is how CEOs justify being still able to run (no, GROW) their companies with 40% less people. Besides AI, there are the dear old “you have to work harder” efficiency (see: 996 culture or Uber ) and the organizational efficiency where they are all “removing managerial layers to enable quicker execution” (see Amazon for instance).
See how these things became all fashionable again at the same time with tech company CEOs? It’s because they are just excuses and hopes, at this point. And AI is the least bad-sounding of them, because it smells like progress, magic and automation (while even the most rabid of investors will recognize that working employees to death doesn’t scale beyond the limited numbers of hours there are in a day).
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The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!
We can’t keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.
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Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.
Agreed! There are lots of excellent EU-based alternatives.
Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?
I use infomaniak
I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.
Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.
The “bodega romanticism” is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of “bodegas” actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.
I don’t think AI is to blame. They just don’t need those people. I heard big tech hired a lot of people to steal them from smaller businesses, so they could not compete with them. If those employees had been useful to them, they wouldn’t fire them.
They’re throwing away the one asset that could dig them out of this hole, if only they’d admit they fucked up royally.
This bubble won’t burst, it will explode.
Any ideas for how we can hasten the end? I sure would like to stop them before they build more data centers.
This is the underlying message of all this Billionaire giddiness: they can’t wait for AI to replace as many of these disgusting human workers as possible.
They would replace every single one of us, if they could, and this administration will HELP them. If we end up with a 50% unemployment rate, they’ll just criminalize debt and unemployment, and put you in a work camp to be leased out as a Federal 13th Amendment Slave. They’ll probably even shorten it, and call them 13s.
Of course, as 13s become common, even more paid jobs will be lost, and eventually most jobs will be done by AI, automation, or slaves, with a few humans in maintenance, software, development, and supervisory positions. The board room will remain all human, of course, even though they’d be the easiest to replace with AI.
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Deleted Facebook, but everyone is know is still maintaining an IG.
Running out of cash for the AI runway are we?
I never expected to say… Man. I bet the investors are really wishing lizard man stuck with the metaverse.
Oh no… anyway.
