Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything

JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  those executives act like parasites. They bring no value and just leech the life from the companies.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    executives act like parasites

    WE MAED TEH PROFITZ!!!1!!1

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      which is ironical since without them the profits would likely soar. Doing bad shit 101 is to pin the consequences of your actions on others and falsely claim any benefits others have managed to do as your own achievements.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        IMO without execs, employees would get paid for a greater percentage of their labor and profits would go down.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Executives think they are the most important part of the company. They are high level managers, that is all.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d argue the CEO is the most important person, usually. We see dipshits like Musk and turn around and bag on all of them.

    Think of a business, doesn’t matter if it’s local or national. How do the employees act? Are they happy and seem to be doing useful work? Are they downcast and depressed looking?

    Sometimes it’s the local manager staving off corporate bullshit, but company culture mostly rolls down from the CEO. They saying, “Shit rolls downhill.”, works both ways.

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    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The CEO and C Suite are the least important people in a company. They can be changed out with relatively little interruption and it takes a lot longer to see the effects. However, you have a on the ground workforce stop producing and the effects are immediate and long lasting.

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• conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, yeah, but those costs are for tomorrow’s executive to figure out, we need those profits NOW

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• splinter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s utterly bizarre. The customers lose out by receiving an inferior product at the same cost. The workers lose out by having their employment terminated. And even the company loses out by having its reputation squandered. The only people who gain are the executives and the ownership.

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  • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is absolutely by design. The corporate raider playbook is well-read. See: Sears, Fluke, DeWalt, Boeing, HP, Intel, Anker, any company purchased by Vista (RIP Smartsheet, we barely knew ye), and so on. Find a brand with an excellent reputation, gut it, strip mine that goodwill, abandon the husk on a golden parachute, and make sure to not be the one holding the bag.

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    • Prime@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What happened to ankor?

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  • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    On a more generic scale (whatever that means), we went from coding serious stuff in Ada with contracts and designs and architectures, to throwing everything in the trash while forgetting any kind of pride and responsibility in less than 50 years. AI is the next step in that global engineering enshittification (I hate that word but it’s appropriate).

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• sudo42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  <cough>Boeing<cough>

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Everyone. But Boeing did a pretty fucked up job of it.

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