Very interesting. I appreciate the additional information. Saying its for AI but moving it to overseas contractors instead of actually moving it to AI that is actually overseas contractors (like that one AI company that was outed as being 700 Indian developers) is honestly kinda funny. AI is enshittification given form, I suppose.

This is the relevant context to this puff-piece, this should be stickied right at the top.

i was going to comment how this resembles PE firm tactics, thats probably his endgoal, and AI is just a convenient excuse.

"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."

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.

Marketing people are known for beliving their own lies.

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.

and that's how he achieved 75% profit margin. Let's see him do that twice.

Does it load exceptionally slow for you too?

https://ignitetech.ai/ it has to be like purposely bad I vibe code internal frontends and ive never had something look this bad

That website is really shit even by the low standards of most modern websites.

Looks ok without any JS.

that 80% adds profit to his pockets. thats whats hes really saying.

Where can I sign up

ineptech

InnerChoad

ignitiontech, where they ignited thier own company to the ground.

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.

Yeah, my boss told he's under pressure from upper management and customers to add AI in our app. His answer is always "to do what?". So far, nobody has provided an answer, but whenever we get one we'll be happy to implement it.

Their website barely even works it honestly looks like a scam organisation. I can't find any description of what it is that they actually do which makes me believe that they don't do anything.

a platform for AI-based email automation

the built a ChatGPT wrapper like all the other revolutionary AI companies lol the world needs more automated spam!

I assume that's the goal he's aiming for. Wonder who will buy his stuff when it's just CEOs and their AI still employed.

An "enterprise-software powerhouse", allegedly. Basically they bought an AI startup and decided that this was their entire personality now.

Exactly

Native advertising for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising

John Oliver has a good bit on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc

I used to joke that the CEO of my former employer must subscribe to some magazine called "CEO Weekly" in which they must periodically mention, in a similar "no examples of usage, just KPIs" manner, webchat. She would always forget about it promptly and then random number of weeks later bug my boss again.

I told him if they want me to come up with how they can use webchat and be their solutions designer they need to double my salary. $60k USD was not enough for being a tier 3 systems admin, a fax and telephony specialist, and figuring out their use cases for them just to check a box that says "we have it!"

They say 'company X KPI are this % better thanks to AI'

They asked an LLM for the KPIs and it helpfully made up the figures they wanted to see.

Which became a self fulfilling prophecy once they showed those awesome “results” to the investors.

Of course it'll all come crashing down once the investors ask for a return on their investment and there are no more new investors to support the pyramid, but by that point someone (probably not the brainrotten CEOs, who are drinking their own coolaid) will be far away with the money in a Cayman Islands bank account...

From the article:

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.

Not surprising the people with technical skills that aren’t actually replaceable by LLMs would be against forced AI adoption. Good luck maintaining a code base created with vibe coding. Meanwhile the CEO probably looks at ChatGPT and realizes it could basically do everything he already does (write emails and make high level decisions without actually having to worry about their implementation) and then incorrectly thinks it’s the case for everyone else.

Prediction markets have outperformed CEOs for decades and still haven't replaced them, for the same reason WfH hasn't replaced offices. Everything is a monopoly or oligopoly now, with no need to efficiently maximize profits. It's entirely a matter of control.

The basic stats I can see are the prompt count, number of active days, and last active date. By default reports are anonymised but that can be turned off by the admin.

Iirc paid licenses let you do data purview searches on prompts. But I can't see that in my one as we only use the basic.

Use it as a dumb worklog sometimes. Tell it what you were already gonna do and ask if it would do the same. It's almost always gonna agree. Then just ignore it. If somebody AI obsessed pulls out the full logs they're gonna see you're doing what the AI said was good. (basically Inception, lol)

Greed and lack of empathy?

1. Board/shareholders want company to do AI because everyone is doing AI so you can't possibly be maxing shareholder value without doing enough AI

2. CEO has to be able to show metrics about everyone doing AI

3. ????

4. Not profit, that's for sure, everyone downstream from the CEO suffers, long term profitability is hindered, but at least while the bubble is still ongoing, share prices are temporarily higher because AI

I heard someone mention that AI sycophathy is a result of renforcement learning techniques used (people rated honeyed words higher, no shock really).

People with big egos tend to like sycophants because they reenforce their narratives they have about themselves. Big egos also tend to take up the majority of cheif type roles, either because privlidge gives advantages to both and some because a big ego makes risks seem smaller them.

Its like we made the perfect machine to suck money from them. The sleezyst sales person with no ego. Just endless text telling you what you want to belive.

There is so much science to be done once the madness is over.

That's a low bar.