foodandart comments on Why Students Are Rejecting Silicon Valley's Vision Of The Future

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Has no one been pointing out to management that even firms like Microsoft are backpedaling on using AI?

The costs seem too high, been reading about the whole pricing changes coming and it's breathtaking.

I honestly see this as yet more of the same mentality that puts more faith in things than in other people. Corporations are notorious for this and it's getting close to the tipping point where their literal human disconnect is going to bite them in the ass.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Has no one been pointing out to management that even firms like Microsoft are backpedaling on using AI?

Management doesn't listen to low level people who actually do work. I think this is part of Ed zitron's "Business Idiot" thesis. Upper management is so far removed from how things actually get done, they are in all measureable ways idiots

Sometimes they also have selfish or stupid side goals, too. Like, the rumor is the company gets a tax break for people going into the office. So now they make people go into the office, even when most of their team is remote. Climate criminals all, but they're removed from the consequences.

Upper management are fools. Middle management just wants their paycheck, and maybe to rise high enough to become a business idiot themselves.

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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Upper management is so far removed from how things actually get done, they are in all measureable ways idiots..

Ah. Decades ago it was described as The Peter Principle wheren one rose in corporate hierarchical structures to their level of incompetence.

Charming to see that it is still there.. (ofc, why would it not be?)

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