Paul Rietschka2d ago
I realize this is compelling to a certain kind of grindset moron, but how would this work? https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-one-person-companies-china-openclaw-alibaba-president-2026-3
Alibaba bets big on AI agents that can power 'one-person companies' — a growing phenomenon in China

Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang discusses the rise of one-person companies, aided by AI agents OpenClaw.

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Show threadshituationist

@prietschka My favorite thing about this "OPC" talk in China is that no one explains how chatbots could be useful to them. Maybe answering emails? But then you've gotta hope that they answer them correctly, and don't piss your customers off. They mention tax compliance, and, just, lol. Good luck.

This was a good tidbit: "OpenClaw has issues with security and return on investment, he said, adding that some customers have spent "hundreds of US dollars for tokens," and when they don't get the results they want from using agents, they quit."

Yeah.

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Show threadPaul Rietschka1d ago

@shituationist I know you and I go back and forth, and it's like two choirs singing at each other, but...what the **fuck** are these good for?

What are people going to use these chatbots for?

No business will trust these things to undertake business processes until they are proven reliable, and they **never** will be proven reliable, that much I can guarantee.

I feel like we're in the early days of the NFT craze with these "agents."

Show threadDogiedog641d ago

@prietschka @shituationist

They're singularly good at making token burn go through the roof. That's it.

To the business dipshit fucksticks running these shitshows, "number go bigger fast wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!" is what they've been trained to go after for the last 20 years. This is all they know how to chase.

I think you're right in that we're seeing the end of the tech industry as we knew it, but I also think we're seeing the end of standard managerial practices as we knew them, too. A LOT of companies that bought the hype are gonna burn for this, and it'll likely lead to a reckoning with how businesses have been vetting their admin staff and running their businesses for the last 30 years.

Show threadPaul Rietschka1d ago

@dogiedog64 @shituationist Corporate management is a shitshow beyond belief, full of the dumbest people and stupidest ideas man has ever created.

A house cleaning is very much needed.

Show threadDogiedog641d ago

@prietschka @shituationist

Oh believe me, I know. It's just as bad at smaller businesses, too. I once worked sales at a local brewery for a few months, and let me tell you, the stories I have would fit right in on any corporate horror story list.

To name one, the 3 senior managers were rich 30-something year-old frat boys, running the brewery on Daddy's money. They managed the place so poorly that we were constantly rotating through staff at a ridiculous pace. At one point we'd cycled through 7 or 8 delivery guys in 5 weeks, largely because they had them working 14hr days regularly. The head chef in the restaurant portion of the business was also their close friend, and he regularly fired tons of kitchen staff "because he liked to". Morale was always dogshit, and to try and fix this… they just started screaming at people. Great stuff. They also fired our head of sales, a guy with 15 years in industry, about halfway through my tenure, right before a major holiday, for not letting management do whatever they wanted. One of the frat boys replaced him, and sales plummeted.

I left a month later, after they fired me over text on an approved vacation. What a nightmare.