Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

• SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think shouldn’t is better to say than can’t. They are definitely going to try.

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• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their hope is probably that AI can let current employees do more work so they can lay people off.

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  • tarknassus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ding! Any gains in productivity will mean more work for less people.

    Anyone who can’t see this coming - I have several bridges for sale.

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    • localme@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah and what it should mean is the same productivity (or slightly higher) over fewer hours worked. So everyone can get more of their lives back to go be happy and spend time with their friends and families. Or literally whatever else people would rather being doing besides working all the damn time.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the material explanation. They expect increased productivity and therefore higher output and therefore higher profits from the same workforce. Not necessarily to downsize. Downsizing or upsizing would be dictated by a combination of the realized productivity gains and the uptake of their products by the market.

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• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Microsoft support was already mostly useless. So, yeah, a useless AI probably could replace that, but it would also probably be more expensive.

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Frankly, with the garbage Microsoft is producing these days, and the rate at which the quality, for lack of a better word, is degenerating, I’m starting to consider if LLM slop might actually be less worse…

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• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not even the guys who call me on the phone to tell me that I have a virus on my computer?

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• shadowfax13@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  suits have been replacing long term essential employees with outsourced trash even before in name of global redundancy and efficiency. now they will just the ai buzz word to hide behind.

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• snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sam Altman makes money from people believing this.

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    • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right now at least, AI is being more of a headache than anything in coding. Microsoft itself was responsible for one such gaffe in May, as an actual coder had to tell the AI to fix an error, again and again, as each time it’d make a different mistake

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use ChatGPT to write code fairly often. Because I don’t know how. ChatGPT never gets it right the first time, usually doesn’t get it right by the 10th try, and will never stop going down a robot hole of inaccuracy until I give up. The only success I have had in recent memory was getting some custom commands written in Karabiner for my desktop mice.

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol

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