I will never understand how is it that such idiots repeatedly make it to the top.
It’s partly the fact that hundreds of millions of people the world over, possibly several billion people, believe that they only got there because they were competent and do nothing to stop them.
it’s all about the networking at that level. Doesn’t matter how much of a blithering idiot you are so long as you know a guy who knows a guy to get you in.
csuites and ceos, are all the result of nepotism, there isnt such a thing as working your way up ofr those positions.
MBAs and such are trained in being confident without knowing anything besides different business grifts.
So they thought it would be free forever, and are surprised by the usage based pricing? I wonder what will happen when ai companies need to be profitable and increase prices accordingly
they thought by paying for AI in its current form will lead to less employee overhead , thereby reducing cost. which dint happen.
It’s like these assholes have never heard the phrase “too good to be true”.
People who get paid exorbitant sums for doing exceptionally little probably try to avoid that concept
They are usually the ones setting up the too good to be true situations, so they probably never thought they would be on the receiving end of one.
I replaced all my software team with agents which can work 24h a day on the product and now none of the software works and I’m out $600000 waaaaaa
- Exec
The bigger problem might be what it will cost to get things back where they need to be. Probably a lot more than $600k. How many of the knowledgeable developers are willing to come back to clean up the mess? Any of them? And at what salary? Possibly a lot more than they were paid before they were kicked out. If you can’t rehire the original developers then you might find others with the required technical skills - but probably not with the domain knowledge. And now costs and times increase further.
Upvote for Samus. 👍
Better than Drake, fo sho
Actually they understand the code that they generate very well. But for existing codebases they make a big mess, because they don’t see the same abstractions humans would like to see.
600k is not a lot of money for a software team or for AI though.
It was a matter of time honestly, anyone with the basic metrics of usage of an service was gonna get screwed over. With people you can actually say hey labor’s too high and lay people off and have a shitty excuse. This is just you’re stupid.
Cant wait to see their reaction when AI replaces them
They should have listened to Ed.
Big tech will suck dry everyone, even their own rich friends.
nividia is sucking dry the big tech companies, so to speak they got thier money upfront for just leasing out the chips years ahead.
It’s funny because they do this to other people; they just never thought it’d happen to them. FAFO 🫡
One would expect they kind of think stuff through before acting on it
Anyone who fell for this grift deserves it and much worse.
People, usually who have never done the job, still love to argue that it can compete with software devs and infra engineers.
The sad part they don’t see (or maybe care about) is while it can’t currently (and absolutely not llms) they’re pushing a narrative that we should automate everyone and everything which is dangerous and moronic.
The people who have never done the work love more than anyone else to talk about how the work should be done better and cheaper.
Broadly this sentiment stands for most professions.
Well, we should automate everything that can be automated - for the benefit of everyone. Last part is something not seen on worldwide scale ever, just yet
I understand the argument for automation being used where appropriate to benefit us and allow us the freedom to focus on other things, however, I’m skeptical due to the social behavior already occurring from the powers that be expressing the desire to enslave us, if not just kill us, using the mere concept of AI as justification.
And funny enough, pushing this hard will only leave a bad taste regarding any mention of artificial intelligence or automation. Whereas if these people just fucked off they might have been able to sell whatever usefulness it has in the correct places.
It happens every couple of decades with AI. Since it’s a broader field than most people think, we have a pretty long cycle of a new development looking exciting, people getting way too excited and optimistic, the development being exactly what it was promised to be, and then people getting disappointed and avoiding anything with the AI label. Then we decide that because we’re used to this new thing, it can be used in stuff as was originally appropriate but it no longer qualifies as AI, because “that’s not AI, it’s just ___”.
Oh yeah. I can sign under every word you wrote
This has been the case ever since things that seem great, like google cloud computing…and your little project just bankrupted you because you left a tap open over the weekend.
Here’s a real a cost saving prompt:
“Translate the contents of every single document in our databases into as many languages (including dead and constructed fictional languages) as possible.”
Now you can fire the one Hispanic guy you hired because you assumed he could speak Hindi.
