CEO of enterprise-software powerhouse IgniteTech.
Can someone tell me what they do? They don’t have a Wikipedia Article and their website is mostly AI slop.
They throw buzzwords at venture capitalists in hopes of one day selling out.
After grilling their silly LLM for a while, I was able to squeeze out what that company really is all about. They don’t really make anything. They just buy miscellaneous software companies, and turn those apps into subscription based cloud cancer. Enterprise software meets maximum enshittification, yeah baby!
Ah, so removing employees from this dumpster fire was a net positive for society.
I think only bankruptcy is the net positive, as long as they don’t stuff legitimate creditors.
No don’t you see - fewer employees means there’s less of anything getting done, and this company is just a parasite that produces nothing of value.
They throw buzzwords
Now I understands why the CEO thinks AI could replace everybody.
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I understand what enterprise software is. That wasn’t my question.
“Doing Our Part to Make the World a Greener Place”
Clown company. You can’t promote AI and do a claim like that at the same time.
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Just like an AI. Instead of learning from mistakes, he repeates them, and denies any wrongdoing.
“You’re Absolutely right!”
Because he asks the ai what’s best but the chatbot always treats it as a loaded question and it wants to be seen as helpful so it finds a way to agree yes-man style.
“The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.”
https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg#t=13s
I see the same push where I work and I cannot get a good answer to the most basic question:
“Why?”
“We want more people using AI.”
“Why?”
“. . .”
Same reason as forcing people back into the office even though it’s the solution to a number of serious issues affecting society:
Investors/banks have tons of money in these markets and are incentivizing/forces companies to adopt these policies to prop up the markets, whether it is in their interest or not.
Oh, yeah, we have that too… we want people in the office because collaboration! Synergy! etc. etc.
“How does that work if you want everyone using AI?”
“. . .”
Oooo hot take time: I’d rather work in an office again than be forced to use LLMs.
I’d rather use the AI than go back to the office. The AI doesn’t care if I’m wearing any pants.
I’d rather correct LLM hallucinations than some of the crap front line tech support tells people. :)
“The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.”
[sigh] Because of course they were. Those people couldn’t find their own arses even if they used both hands.
Late stage capitalism rewards management for any appearance of change. It really doesn’t matter whether the results of that change are good or bad. And even a CEO who keeps destroying companies can always find a similar position elsewhere. The feedback loop is hopelessly broken.
Reminds me of the song Just Movement by Robert DeLong
“Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels.”
So the people that understood it best were sceptical, and this didn’t give him pause.
Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?
Because they try the tools, realize that their job is pretty much covered by LLMs and think it’s the same for everyone.
Technical staff were skeptical because they actually know what AI can and can’t do reliably in production environments - it’s good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistancy.
So it’s the CEO they should replace.
it’s good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistency.
Thank goodness nobody is crusading to have AI take over medicine.
…which is why I categorically refuse to use the term Artificial intelligence .
They’re easily conned and they love yes men.
Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?
$$$$$$$
AIs are cheaper than humans.
Cheaper NOW, when OpenAI operates at huge loss
Not really. Because they don’t work and then they have to hire more humans which is more expensive than just keeping them on for the 6 months it’ll take for the CEOs to realise that.
The bullshitters were quick to adopt the bullshit factory.
Does he still have a company at all?
This type of shortsightedness should be punished. I mean AI can be useful for certain tasks but it’s still just a tool. It’s like these CEOs were just introduced to a screwdriver and he’s trying use it for everything.
“Look employees, you can use this new screwdriver thing to brush your teeth and wipe your ass. “
You can use this new screwdriver to fuck yourself. We’re working late boys!
What if we just swap CEOs with psychopathic assholes that only… oh wait.
You have to use AI! For what? I dunno, figure it out or you’re fired! <- a genius businessman, apparently…
This blind lemming-like rush towards AI that so many CEOs seem to suffer from seriously resembles cult behavior or severe drug addiction, my god…
They are so hung up on replacing employees with AI, but they don’t know how, so they force the employees to use AI, in the hope that the employee will teach the AI how to replace them
Nah, vulture capital.
Off-topic, but not-so-fun fact: lemmings don’t actually follow each other off cliffs in mass suicide events. The people filming the documentary actually scared and chased them to get them to panic and do that.
Horrible, I know
True and completely right, but I lack the vocabulary to replace it with something more accurate and still evocative enough :)
I’ve heard the term “Driving towards the mountains like the Donner party” which while grim does work to illustrate the point.
Haha, that’s neat! Morbid, but neat - I’ll have to remember it, thanks! :)
AI always tells them what they want to hear and will make up sources ad infinitum. So unless you step outside of that bubble and search on your own, you would never know.
AI will now supplement all interactions with the genius businessman
Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels. They were the “most resistant,” he said, voicing various concerns about what the AI couldn’t do, rather than focusing on what it could. The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.
Imagine that.
Yeah I have a CEO like that, it makes me want to strangle him. He constantly considers the raising of valid concerns to be some sort of personality failing. Meetings with him are an utterly pointless exercise, they’re not meetings, they are times where he tells us what he’s already decided to do.
Fortunately the held on Teams now, so I just joined the meeting and then go make a cup of coffee.
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No, I disagree. The CEO is by far the most replaceable person when it comes to AI if the directive is to simply make more money for shareholders based on market research. I would argue that the CEO is being a parasite here.
CEOs are invariably the parasites in virtually any company where they earn more than 10× than their median employee.
Nothing that can be done inside the business can justify compensation like that. Ergo: parasitism of the profits, of siphoning away more and more value that the workers produce just for themselves and those of their fellow parasites.
As a paid, captive squirrel, focusing on spinning my workout wheel and getting my nuts at the end of the day, I hate that AI is mostly a (very expensive) solution in search of a problem. I am being told “you must use AI, find a way to use it” but my AI successes are very few and mostly non-repeatable (my current AI use case is: “try it once for non-vital, not time-sensitive stuff, if at first you don’t succeed, just give up, if you succeed, you saved some time for more important stuff”).
If I try to think as a CEO or an entrepreneur, though, I sort of see where these people might be coming from. They see AI as the new “internet”, something that for good or bad is getting ingrained in everything we do and that will cause your company to go bankrupt for trying too hard to do things “the new way” but also to quickly fade to irrelevance if you keep doing things in the same way.
It’s easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to say now “haha, Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 Millions and now they are out of business”, but all these people who have seen it happen are seeing AI as the new disruptive technology that can spell great success or complete doom for their current businesses. All hype? Maybe. But if I was a CEO I’d be probably sweating too (and having a couple of VPs at my company wipe up the sweat with dollar bills)
I’m working in a small software development company. We’re exploring AI. It’s not being pushed without foundation.
There’s no need to commit when you don’t even know what you’re committing to, disregarding cost and risk. It just doesn’t make sense. We should expect better from CEOs than emotionally following a fear of missing out without a reasonable assessment.
The only difference between AI and NFTs is that the market believes in it.
There are use cases for AI. There are none for NFTs.
One use case is whenever you need to produce some inane bullshit that nobody is probably going to read anyway, but it’s still required for some reason. Like cover letters.
Now, you might argue that we should work towards a society where we don’t have to produce this inane bullshit that nobody’s going to read anyway, and I would agree with you. But as long as we’re here, we might as well offload this pointless labor onto a pointless labor-saving machine.
That and spam. Yes, I agree with you. AI is virtually useless otherwise.
So much spam… internet is hardly usable after a decade of SEO and now with LLM sprinkled on top.
Kindly disagree. People actually read cover letters, and a cryptographically secured entry on a pubic ledger has some conceivable use.
People actually read cover letters
I have my doubts. I’ve had more than one recruiter tell me “I don’t read cover letters”, and even if they are “reading” it, it’s going to be a brief skim at best.
In any case, that still doesn’t mean that you should be writing them. My point is that it’s make-work. It’s there to weed out candidates and demonstrate your ability to jump through their hoops.
a cryptographically secured entry on a pubic ledger has some conceivable use.
We’re talking specifically about NFTs.
That’s why I created “Poopchain, the only blockchain with millions of unique pictures of poop.
My use case for AI is to get it to tell me water to cereal ratios, like for rice, oatmal, corn meal. If there is a mistake, I can easily control for it, and it’s a decent enough starting point.
That said, I am just being lazy by avoiding taking my own notes. I can easily make my own list of water to cereal ratios to hang on the fridge.
Yeah, so far all of the cooking stuff I got from ChatGPT were things that I could’ve found on my own if I had searched better. It will give you a recipe that is edible. It will have the same 4-6 spices as every other recipe and it will require a can of tomatoes. These are all savory dishes; I assume there are a different set of spices and no tomatoes if it’s sweet, but I haven’t tested that theory.
It gets old quick.
You probably don’t want to work at a company like that anyway.
Or work with them. Or hire them. And I don‘t even know what they do.
They “do AI”.
Today, I ran into a bug. We’re being encouraged to use AI more so I asked copilot why it failed. I asked without really looking at the code. I tried multiple times and all AI could say was ‘yep it shouldn’t do that’ but didn’t tell me why. So, gave up on copilot and looked at the code. It took me less than a minute to find the problem.
It was a switch statement and the case statement had (not real values) what basically reads as ’ variable’ == ‘caseA’ or ‘caseB’. Which will return true… Which is the bug. Like I’m stripping a bunch of stuff away but co-pilot couldn’t figure out that the case statement was bad.
AI is quickly becoming the biggest red flag. Fast slop, is still slop.
AI thinks in the same way that ants think, there’s no real intelligence or thought going on but ants are still able to build complex logistics chains by following simple rules, although AI works on completely different principles the effect is the same, it’s following a lot of simple rules that lead to something that looks like intelligence.
The problem is a lot of people seem to think that AIs are genuinely simulations of a brain, they think the AI is genuinely conjugating because they kind of look like they do sometimes. The world is never going to get taken over by a mindless zombie AI. If we ever do get AGI it won’t be from LLMs that’s for sure.
I do find AI useful when I’m debugging a large SQL / Python script though and gotta say I make use of it in that case… other than that it’s useless and relying on it as ones main tool is idiotic
I think as a society we need to go through this, watching companies fail and shareholders losing their shit before the perpetrators of Assumed Intelligence end up in court.
I have mixed feelings about the employees who are caught up in this … let’s call it what it is … scam.
It’s easy to say … you lost your job because your boss is an arsehole, but how much influence did each individual really have in the overall process?
I’ve been looking for the next paid challenge for five years … well before this AI scam was perpetrated on the world. Despite having 40+ years industry experience and an aging population, my own age appears to be a barrier for the HR teams relying on the same tools that is causing them to lose their jobs.
As I said, I think this needs to blow up before it gets better, hopefully before I’m too old to do meaningful work.
Of course he would. He could probably give hitler lessons on oven design.
