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.

@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.

@tante yeah it's a real "YOU HAD ONE JOB" situation