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AI expected to create efficiencies

Couldn’t help but chuckle at that bullet point. We should know by now that AI creates lots of cognitive debt and unstable, vibe-coded software, but one thing it absolutely doesn’t seem to do is make things more efficient long term.

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yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
See we replaced people with costs to run virtual people that would make oracle blush. Are the virtual people any good? Goodness no.

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- kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That’s progress, right? Right?
  
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  - yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Through great effort we have molded this once analog curiosity into a digital ouroboros… to very nearly duplicate Kyle from accounting!
    
    … Admittedly this would be the Kyle following the unfortunate kick to the head from that clydesdale.
    
    Nevermind that! We’ve gone ahead and laid off the rest off accounting and now Kyle² is wielding immesurable power to… Oh. Oh dear.
    
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errer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The problem here is “expected.” Maybe they’re right and AI will do what they say…well, show us the receipts first then before you ruin thousands of people’s lives?

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andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Layoffs aren’t caused by AI efficiency.

Efficiency is how CEOs justify being still able to run (no, GROW) their company with 40% less people. Besides AI, there are the dear old “you have to work harder” efficiency (see: 996 culture) and the organizational efficiency where they are all “removing managerial layers, enabling quicker execution” (see Amazon for instance).

See how these things became all fashionable again at the same time with tech company CEOs? It’s because they are just excuses and hopes, at this point. And AI is the least bad-sounding of them, because it smells like progress, magic and automation (while even the most rabid of investors will recognize that working employees to death doesn’t scale beyond the limited numbers of hours there are in a day).

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