Kevin BeaumontGoing all in with GenAI, the case study.
In fairness, with GenAI you can accelerate things - eg the business directly into a wall.
FirstyearA thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.
Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.
Dio9sys@GossiTheDog
it is so tiring trying to convince the C suite that it's good, actually, for security practitioners to know how to use the computer and want to learn more and get better
it is so tiring trying to convince the C suite that it's good, actually, for security practitioners to know how to use the computer and want to learn more and get better
⠠⠵ avukoGenAI is a plausible bullshit generator. If it can replace your work, guess what your work always was?
I'll wait... I know the cognitive damage genAI use causes.
I feel I have to add this is solidly targeted at high payed bullshitters.
I have full compassion for people doing menial bullshit work.
We all know we should just go for UBI and move away from the "earn a living" horror, but that would inconvenience our Neo-feudal overlords, so good for you for just phoning it in.
Rainer Burkhardt ❌
Damien@logorok @avuko @GossiTheDog universal base image
Or the actual answer is universal basic income
TheSnoopySnoop@GossiTheDog Nicely put. I actually find Copilot distracting and use other means to analyse etc but it is most annoying while using Outlook in particular
Cap Ybarra@GossiTheDog which they *formerly* knew how to do, until they got their brains melted
Otte Homan - remember Geordie@GossiTheDog I feel there's an excellent meme un here somewhere: C suite corporate execs on a Cloud 9nthing staring at PPTX crud thrown at a display full of remote avatars with a copilot driving the cloud into a hellish thunderstorm, or something like that. With actual workers out in the pissing rain with both feet on the ground.
gunstick@GossiTheDog the moment my ceo used LLM to do his email, my reaction was: oh LLM can do that job. So no more need for a ceo. Nice.
Hubert Figuière@gunstick @GossiTheDog they have the same level of accountability
Seth Mos@GossiTheDog If they want to replace a person it would imply giving someone the same access as the person you are trying to replace.
And even though a AI can probably manage to login to a Palo Alto with MFA after some effort, and parse some logs. I'd wonder if it would just fix it with a any-any rule.
Not even considering the human conversation where they tell you they only need port X. 😉
Chris Pitts@GossiTheDog Certainly for software development there seems to be an underlying belief with non-engineers (especially management “I wrote a website once” types) that writing software “is just typing”.
What you describe fits that theory pretty well IMO
caskfan@thirstybear @GossiTheDog metrics such as counting the number of lines of code reinforce that way of thinking. I once worked on a project that measured the ratio of code to comments (supposedly as a measure of quality)
@thirstybear @GossiTheDog we saw lots of:
# add 1 to x
x = x + 1
Ken Milmore@caskfan @thirstybear @GossiTheDog Yes also misapplication of coding standards, such as to avoid unnamed constants in the code.
i = i + 1;
becomes
#define ONE 1
i = i + ONE;
and the code passes review.
@caskfan @GossiTheDog I honestly thought we had grown out of that as an industry back in the 80s/90s because it simply does not work.
AI seems to be dragging us back: “Ooh! Look at all the code we can now generate! We can get applications done twice as quickly with fewer people! Never mind the quality, feel the width!” 🤦♂️
@caskfan @GossiTheDog Finally got around to watching this video and suddenly some more things start to make sense.
Batten down the hatches, folks, it's going to be a rough ride for a few years.
Chris Pitts (@[email protected])
This is a really quite interesting point of view that makes some kind of perverted sense. Certainly food for thought. Rory Sutherland (VC, Ogilvy UK) 2026 predictions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXCJhqXubU
Simon Zerafa (Status: 
😊)Type 2 AI Psychosis 😕
Peter H. Fröhlich@GossiTheDog The depth of the "AI delusion" seems to correlate well with how much ACTUAL work that keeps the company doing what it's supposed to be doing you ACTUALLY do each day.