Comment by inigyou
9 days ago
I remember recently they polled workers about AI pressure: "the AI doesn't work very well, but my boss wants to see me using it." They polled the boss: "I didn't say they had to use it, they're choosing to use it and this'll look good to the executive". The executive: "well this costs a bunch but it'll look good to shareholders and we should encourage more use so it'll look even better." The shareholders: "do we look like we give a shit?"
Out of all of them, I'd assume the shareholders to be wrong.
Look at the state of the world. Yes, you do look like you give a shit.
Also there's an effect here where if just 10% of shareholders care about this it still makes sense to go for it if you think you can be faster than your competition.
Can you name any shareholders of Microsoft who pushed for renaming Office to Copilot?