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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 (fortune.com)
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“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

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[–] 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The question I put to management is "What do you want me to use AI for?"

I can't get a consistent answer. Lots of stuff unrelated to my job duties. "Well, it's so easy to make Facebook ads!" - "You know that's not a thing I do, right?"

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    They don't have an answer because they don't know either. They've bought into the idea, and invested trillions, and now they're all hoping to just churn the cream until it turns into something else, but they have no idea what it will be, or how to use it.

    They're just hoping some minion finally figures out a profitable model, so they can claim it as their own, give him a nominal raise and a nice office, and they can go make trillions off his idea.

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