Karl Bodeit's so adorable watching them sheepishly start to admit there's a disconnect between the huge outpouring of AI money and actual impact and profitability
Uber burned through its entire...
Uber burned through its entire...
if you see some AI booster being hyper defensive about the financial realities underpinning all of this, make sure to write a note on your phone about exactly what they claimed, and bring it up to them 12 months from now.
I'm sure they'll appreciate it!
TeflonTrout 
he/himWell, tbqh making a leaderboard for an automatable task couldn't have helped either
standev@TeflonTrout an automatable task that costs money, even
aburtch@karlbode.com Watching the beginning of the fall in realtime…
SlippiHUDThese people (MBAs) are so fucking stupid. They seem to be unable to predict the consequences of thier actions, and actively resent people capable of the feat. Cause damn near everyone told them that this would happen when they announced that this is what they're doing.
@SmashToday @karlbode.com Right? It turns out when you incentivize people to spend money, they will spend money faster than you budgeted for them to (regardless of how large you think the budget is)
Russell Phillips@karlbode.com this sentence got to me:
It’s the latest development in a complex quandary arising in enterprise AI adoption: increasing AI use comes with higher costs, even as per-unit AI pricing falls.
If managers really find that complex, they're idiots who shouldn't be in charge of anything.
Fábio Costa 🐇🕐🎩☕@karlbode.com I love seeing Uber being uberized!
Nine Stones Close@karlbode.com loving watching these idiots crash and burn. They will just increase their AI budget 🤣
Paul Cantrell“…reports that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage.”
I hesitate to judge from the outside a situation I do not truly know, but actually I don’t: you absolute dumbasses, wow
Michael Newton@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Something I've wondered for many years since I first found out that many companies 'reward' spending your whole budget before the end of a financial period: what are senior management thinking/smoking when they issue policies that explicitly say 'I will financially reward you for spending more of the organization's money'?
Paul Cantrell (@[email protected])
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Greg Burns@karlbode.com I'm questioning why he's still Ubers COO
Dr. Bruce Simpson@karlbode.com He was being stupid.
AlexTECPlayz@karlbode.com I constantly wonder what else do ride-sharing apps need to add as a feature...
You have an app, you open it, write or tap a location you want to arrive at, you tap, write or use GPS to get the starting location, pick a tier of car (e.g. the more greener option, women-only, comfort, comfort plus or some other tier), it looks for nearby drivers, one of them may accept, the driver comes and picks you up and drops you off where needed, with a live location sharing feature.
What else could you possibly need?
ceets@karlbode.com @alextecplayz
more managers brainstorming ways to destroy workers rights
The Lack Thereof 
@alextecplayz
Mostly, figuring out which drivers and riders can safely be price gouged, and which ones need the hook set a little deeper first
Mostly, figuring out which drivers and riders can safely be price gouged, and which ones need the hook set a little deeper first
@lackthereof I mean Bolt and Uber already do that, it's a built-in algorithm that hikes up the price in specific areas where there's more orders or whatever.
@alextecplayz
There's more to it than that, Lyft and Uber both have additional algorithms that tweak rates based on the particular user/account history
A rider who books the same route at the same time every day will be given higher prices for that trip than one who makes the same trip rarely or only once.
A driver who accepts every offered fare without fail will be given a lower and lower cut of the payment than one who picks and chooses.
These algorithms are endlessly twiddleable and tunable, with constant iteration and A/B testing happening, live, on actual users, trying to probe out the actual highest cost the market will bear for each individual user & operator at every moment. That's the Uber platform's real product and technology, not the provisioning of rides to riders.
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A driver who picks and chooses will be offered better fares and/or more optimal routes.
It's more fun for food delivery apps: they can price-gouge 3 different parties on every order.
I have heard anecdotes about some food delivery platforms offering their riders longer journeys to get to the next pickup point if they only have one platform's app installed.
Riders who gig for more than one platform tend to get offered the next job closer to where they last dropped off.
A driver who picks and chooses will be offered better fares and/or more optimal routes.
It's more fun for food delivery apps: they can price-gouge 3 different parties on every order.
I have heard anecdotes about some food delivery platforms offering their riders longer journeys to get to the next pickup point if they only have one platform's app installed.
Riders who gig for more than one platform tend to get offered the next job closer to where they last dropped off.
@lackthereof @alextecplayz
Also in the food delivery sector:
CONSUMERS! Earn air miles!
https://www.avios.com/en-GB/collect-avios/shopping/retailers/deliveroo-uk/
RIDERS! Get an exclusive discounted eSIM, cheaper petrol, free coffee!
https://riders.deliveroo.com/en/news/exclusive-mobile-deals-for-deliveroo
"To keep your rider perks active, you’ll need to complete orders with Deliveroo every couple of weeks."
Louise Auerhahn 🏳️🌈@karlbode.com And Uber is a company that is among the best positioned to profit from AI, because they can use algorithmic management to exploit & steal from their drivers. So if it's this bad at Uber, imagine how much $ other corporations are losing on AI.
hush404@karlbode.com Fucking love articles like this.