“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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[–] 105 points 10 months ago (14 children)

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.

So the people that had an actual idea of what the implications of using it might be weren't on board? Huh. Weird.

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  • [–] 57 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    "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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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

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

    • Stockton Rush (if he were alive today)
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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    speaking of submarines, this is the exact line of thinking that turned an idiot CEO into a paste at the bottom of the ocean

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 10 months 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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