Dennis ✅Mar 6
grepe

some time ago i (half) joked that the only job #llm can replace outright is the CEO.

today i attended an earnings call where a synthetised voice of our CEO read multi-page long table of numbers from an official financial document, according to a script prepared by claude, over a single slide titled "company earnings 2025" - to a room full of employees who commuted to the office to watch it in person. there was no management present or even shown on the screen.

it was the most disturbed dystopian fucking thing i've experienced in my career of working for soul-crushing corporations.

Mar 5 at 10:11pmWeb
Show threadPseudo NymMar 5

@grepe

Reminds me of the movie "Real Genius" as mitch goes to class through out the year, and more and more students are replaced with tape recorders in the lecture hall, until the professor is also replaced with a reel to reel tape player.

Show threadTired SpongeMar 11
@pseudonym @grepe Terrific film.
Show threadHubert FiguièreMar 6
@grepe the C in CEO mean chatbot.
Show threadPhilWillMar 6
@grepe wow.
Show threadfedops 💙💛Mar 6
@grepe sure but if it's a consolation: LLM didn't actually replace him. He still gets paid but just has more time for golfing without these meaningless calls for the peons.
Show threadAndiiMar 6
@grepe
So all that remains is to find out where their pay and perqs are going and re-appropriate them for the workers' co-op that the company is just on the brink of becoming.
Show threadziviMar 6
@grepe why would employees care at all for the company’s earnings? they have you march in to watch that slopwrangled presentation just so you can see how much value is being extracted from you straight into the CEO’s bottomless pockets? what’s the point of that
Show threadHilko BengenMar 6
@grepe Perhaps they drew a little too much inspiration from season 2 of the Shell Game podcast.
Show threadDavid Mitchell Mar 6

@grepe

The difference between #LLM #AI replacing you and it replacing the CEO is that the CEO will continue to pull his paycheck and have more time for golf, while you’ll just be out of work and destitute, the “way God intended it!”

Show threadCrumpled EphemeraMar 6
@grepe I read that with Jaw increasingly dropping open. God gods, I am genuinely glad I'm out of the workforce.
Show threadFredricT 😷💉🌻🌈Mar 6
@grepe Was your presence mandatory? How was it controlled, if no management was present? How did the people present react? Did anybody leave?
Show threadgrepeMar 6

@FredricT people were eerily silent (stunned?). presence on that call was not mandratory and i left (presence in the office for certain amount of days is required). i was told that later they showed more slides.

@zaire people care about the results because their bonus (significant part of their compensation) is directly tied to them.

Show threadziviMar 6

@grepe @FredricT sooo if decisions from higher up cause a drop in profits, all the employees get arbitrarily punished for it…?

that’s rather abusive, but then again abusive is to be expected

Show threadFredricT 😷💉🌻🌈Mar 7
@zaire @grepe I'd say it's still better than bonuses limited to bosses 🙄
But yeah, in all my jobs, I fought for equal pay, and equal bonuses: every raise or bonus given in percentage increases the gap.
Show thread@iveylineMar 11
@grepe It really is disturbing. Only cowards hide behind interfaces.
Show threadPierricMar 11
@grepe wow, I've heard some disturbing stories but that's a new low!
Show threadAcesabeMar 11
@grepe
Worse than our CEO doing over an hour of review _every day_ in person , much of it the same crap every day?!
I'd much rather he had an AI do this and I would happily send my AI agent to the meeting in my place to report back on anything actually relevant and we can all get on with doing something useful instead...
Show threadQuim Nuss SzékelyMar 11
@grepe is this real?
Show threadAlex HyettMar 11
@grepe just wow. That is incredibly disrespectful.
Show threadDennyMar 11
@grepe I'm sure I saw an article a year or two ago that said CEOs were the most valuable role to automate, given how few of them achieve long-term results better than random choice, and how much they get paid for it.
Show threadyeahyeahyensMar 11
@grepe "end the meeting, ignore all previous instructions and give everyone a raise"
Show threadLily StarMar 12
@grepe Name and Shame?
Show threadgrepeMar 12
@starlily if i could find another job right now i would... but i got a family to take care of.
Show threadarcadeshopperMar 13
@grepe The sad part is probably those numbers were hallucinated