Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  "All the engineers said my “screen door on a submarine” was “stupid” and would “sink the ship”, so I fired them and hired new engineers!"

  • CEO of now defunct “Screen Door Subs Inc.”

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  • greasewizard@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean this is the exact line of thinking turned an idiot CEO into a paste at the bottom of the ocean

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      thank you mighty wizard for casting dopamine.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can not read the word “cast” in any form without remembering this:

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a small difference, the imploded CEO was “boldly going where no man had gone before, on such an accelerated timetable and tight budget” - the screen door guy was a couple of orders of magnitude more foolish.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I told AI to build me a submarine out of titanium.

    • Stockton Rush (if he were alive today)

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    • OshagHennessey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Titanic sub was made from carbon fiber. Titanium is what he should have used.

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Damnit, I knew that too. I stopped skimming too early in the Wiki paragraph.

        The entire pressure vessel for the crew used five major components: two hemispherical titanium end caps, two matching titanium interface rings, and the 142 cm (56 in) internal diameter, 2.4-meter-long (7.9 ft) carbon fiber-wound cylindrical hull.[15] The forward hemispherical end cap could be detached from its interface ring, becoming a hatch that allowed crew members to enter the crew compartment before a mission, and exit at its conclusion.[3]

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• Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sales and marketing is often mostly bullshitting anyway. It also has a lot less risk and constraint associated to generated text having issues. Not surprised they were more on board. The tool is more fitting for those use cases anyway.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re also the people who build their career on never stirring the pot so they can make their clients feel special. They’re built to be sycophants and their jobs are, and this isn’t even necessarily a bad thing, a little more nebulous which means they’d feel the effects much less strongly.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Pointlessly waffling for a living just got so much easier!”

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• ideonek@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marketing people are known for beliving their own lies.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Like the guy with the carbon fiber submarine. Every engineer told him it couldn’t be done, so he kept firing them until he had a staff of young, inexperienced engineers who would do what they were told, and just collect their paychecks.

  Now their boss is dead, and there are no more paychecks.

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well at least that problem fixed itself.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wished more of society’s problems were solved that way, with the guy responsible for such a stupid concept paying the ultimate price for his arrogance.

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• boogiebored@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seeing these kinds of people harness AI is so embarrassing. They feel empowered while doing some of the whackest stuff. In the end, it is still technical style work snd they are still awful at it.

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• Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  rather than focusing on what it could

  When you’re driving a car down the ski jumping ramp.

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