Comment by red_hare
10 hours ago
I work for an "AI-native" company now and have found this to be the case.
EVERYONE (engineers, pms, managers, sales) uses Claude Code to read and write Google Docs (google workspace mcp). Ideas, designs, reports. It's too much for one person to read and, with a distributed async team, there's an endless demand for more.
So for every project there's always one super Google Doc with 50 tabs and everyone just points their claude code at it to answer questions. It's not to be read by a human, it's just context for the agent.
This is literally losing the whole process to a stochastic parrot.
They are so far removed from the process they can claim they are any % more productive and no one is able to contradict them. Call it a ‘productivity theatre’
The economic reality check is going to be devastating. It won’t be a crash of AI as a tech, it will be a crash of every ‘AI native’ company that does not even know what is their product any more.
The US reinventing the worst parts of Soviet but putting a glossy and chipper veneer on it.
To be fair, a lot of those people were stochastically parroting by themselves for years already. They are just capable to stochastically parrot more.
These companies have enough market power that they can afford to be ineffective. So they were. And they are ineffective in novel way.