Waldo JaquithOct 8
I've seen a couple of news stories recently that tell me how completely screwed that major consulting firms are. The first was Accenture laying off 1% of their workforce to demonstrate that they're all in on GenAI. Really? Accenture wants to advertise that they can be replaced by an $20/month LLM?

Accenture plans on 'exiting' s...
Accenture plans on 'exiting' staff who can't be reskilled on AI amid restructuring strategy

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said as advanced AI becomes core to the company's strategy, employees are expected to "retrain and retool" at scale.

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@waldo.net this is what gets me. There's a guy in my office who now generates all his PRs with Claude. I would hope he reviews them, but in some cases obviously not. So he's just de-skilling himself and advertising that fact? I seriously don't understand the thought process.
Oct 8 at 2:15amWeb