Comment by stego-tech
7 days ago
The AI fever pitch has done a great job at exposing which companies were run with a degree of sanity, versus who bought blindly into the hype train narrative of worker replacement and went all-in.
Look, LLMs thrive when they’re given structured data that’s well annotated, clear direction, and treated as the probabilistic machines they are. Not one of those meshes with the AI narrative of “works on existing stuff, requires minimal guidance, and can behave deterministically.”
I said as much in 2024 when my employer at the time was grading folks on AI usage while my role was entirely deterministic in nature. It didn’t resonate with specific leadership then, it doesn’t seem to be doing so in the larger market now, and unfortunately not one of these dolts will suffer any consequences for their organizational myopia.
Maybe management is a more reasonable target for human equivalence ;)
I mean most managers in my incredibly subjective experience are indistinguishable from the probability slot machines that are LLMs, and those who weren’t were often managers I’d walk through fire for.
I’d love to see more research on the efficacy of LLMs as organizational middle management, but I fret that without sufficient anonymity protections for staff they’ll just do the same biased shit humans do.