Comment by Twirrim

> why do you actually accept this is a real narrative real people believe?

Because we're literally seeing people being laid off with narratives about being replaced with AI (At a whole slew of companies). Because we're seeing company policies around hiring being changed to require hiring managers to provide exhaustive justifications why the work couldn't be handled by an AI (at e.g. Shopify, Salesforce and so on)

> have you talked to the executives implementing these strategies?

I have had a few conversations, yes. Have you? They're weirdly "true believers" that are buying the marketing hype hook line and sinker. They're doing small coding exercises themselves in these tools, seeing that they as an executive can manage to get valid code for the small exercise out the other side of it, and assuming that that means it can replace head count. Either deliberately or naively failing to understand that there is a world of difference between leet code style exercises, or quick small changes to code bases, and actual software development.

The weirdest conversation recently, which thankfully I got to just be on the periphery of, involved an engineering org that decided to try to replace the post-incident process with one entirely written by LLMs. It would take timelines from a ticket, and a small prompt to write up the entire post-incident report, tasks etc.

The whole project showed a gross misunderstanding of the point of post-incident stuff, eradicating "introspection" and "learning from your mistakes", turning it into a check box exercise for teams. Even their narrative around what they were doing was hilarious, because it came down to "Get the post-incident report out of the way so we can concentrate on the real work".