tanteSpend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.
But it was super fun to lead them through a "this is how you can force reasonable evaluation on 'AI' projects which kills most of them" framework and see how they felt empowered and able to actually do their job again.
Which was really fucked up to see: These folks actually want to protect their organizations from burning a lot of resources on bullshit instead of fixing actual problems that help the workers _and_ the organization. And they have to actively fight management who got their brains ruined on linkedin.
Glyph@tante It is a weird time to be alive. I wrote The Futzing Fraction functionally *for free* to help CEOs do their own cost modeling. And they don't even read it themselves — employees read it, and carefully create customized internal presentations to make its framing *even gentler* to their orgs, and it still only works to help soften AI mandates like half the time (at least based on the feedback I have received).
@tante Critics are characterized as surly bomb-throwers when we are trying SO HARD to help corporations succeed, just so they won't make our world *even worse*. It's a literal win win they are trying to avoid
@glyph you can only help people if they are willing to accept help I guess. But it's tragic.
@glyph the amount of times where I asked a CEO/CTO about their "AI" project and how they actually measure cost or what their measurable criteria for success are and only got someone looking at me as if I was speaking in tongues is really scary.
Like: Isn't turning everything into metrics and measurements in order to make data driven decisions what management is supposed to do?
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷"AI is going to make us more productive at shipping our software."
"Great! Amazing! That must be several phd theses you got there! Well done! Didn't know you had it in you."
"?!?"
"Well, I mean, you must have figured out how to measure software development productivity reliably, right? What's our baseline at?"
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