KI zahlt sich in der Denkweise der Unternehmen nicht aus. Studie zeigt, dass durch Automatisierung bedingte Entlassungen keine Rendite generieren

> “Looking only at layoffs is shortsighted in terms of getting value from AI,” Helen Poitevin, VP analyst at Gartner and a key researcher of the study, told Fortune.

Gee, you think?

Aren’t we already BY FAR the most productive global workforce in history? But a bunch a people gotta lose their jobs in pursuit of another stock price bump?

>A survey of 350 global business executives with an annual revenue of at least $1 billion by the research and advisory firm [Gartner](https://fortune.com/company/gartner/) found that many have reduced their workforce irrespective of AI adoption.

The actual study is either not linked in the article at all or the website makes it very hard to find. Well, atleast for me

Huh. Who woulda thunk it, that a glorified spellchecker can’t replace actual thinking?

I work in business ops. look after fairly complex workflows that typically involve at least 3 departments. We have every single AI subscription. Realistically it automates maybe 5% or a few steps, the rest requires judgement, syncs, decisions, analysis etc. And the whole thing changes quarter to quarter.

We don’t just click buttons on computers lol. These tools are great but where the f did This will replace entire departments notion come from.

Companies don’t care.

This doesn’t make them look them bad the way it’s intended: they’re not stupid, they just wanted to experiment and it failed. They fucked with their employees‘ livelihood in the process though, which should be the reason to trigger you instead of making fun of them.

Layoffs only ever generate a one-time cost savings. What is this “return” they’re expecting?

No shit. Meanwhile you have all these idiots on LinkedIn, at least in the design space constantly spamming that the old ways are dead. The old ways will not die if AI doesn’t scale across large enterprises. We’re in the subsidized phase right now too and companies are finding out quick. This is a bubble that will pop like every other before it and I cannot wait.

Yeah no shit, our best developer became our worst in the last 12 months because he bought fully into the AI vibe coding stack and now his code is garbage that doesn’t pass even the most base level QA test suite, funny enough when he runs it through Chat gpt or Claude or whatever he’s decided to use this time’s testing it always says it’s perfect. And I submit bug reports only for him to claim the AI said it’s an unreproducible bug, then I have to send him video evidence. As a QA professional I hope that this trend dies fast because it’s made my job 10 times harder than it used to be.

They only cut costs to buoy their executives paychecks. That’s why they’re doing it.

NO SHIT SHERLOCK

You mean laying off tons of people is a short term positive for these companies but a long term negative when all of these laid off people are no longer contributing to the economy and capitalism’s never ending greed?

Whaaaaaa

That’s ok. They’ll hire these people back as contract workers for less money.

AI is great if it is a tool and not a total replacement for workers. For example, I work in the technology field and projects that used to take me a week to do manually take about a day now. One of my biggest wins was we had an internal HTML site that was old and outdated. I have HTML knowledge, but if I was to update it myself would have taken a week since besides the re-design I would need to update and add new tables, etc. Instead I gave all the specifications to Claude, worked out some kinks and had a perfect workable solution in a few hours.

All that institutional knowledge thrown away because nepo CEOs don’t have an original thought in their heads.

Workers should replace Managers and CEO’s with AI, maybe then there will be some more money for the people that actually make money in a company.

I’ve said this from the start. AI is your mid employee that can push the buttons really fast and sometimes accurately. Until it can figure out what buttons need to be made to be pressed to get an outcome, this will be result. AI is for AUTOMATION not INNOVATION.

I asked Claude to populate a simple table with info from a report – entry level admin job stuff. I spent ages getting the prompting right but it still got confused and populated completely the wrong stuff.

I did the task myself and it took less time than the time I spent building the right prompt.

Also tried it with ChatGPT which couldn’t even read the report and gave up.

Jobs are safer than we think…

A company I work with, a world leader in their field, is trying to implement AI in their workflow – and it’s one of the few cases where I think they have a great approach.

They did a test phase: 100 employees, all volunteers, are allowed to use a huge array of AI tools for whatever and however they want. No restrictions. Do. Whatever. You. Want.

Because a CEO doesn’t know how AI could help Betty from accounting. Nor does he know it could help Alan from shipping.

And then they continuously exchange their experience: what works, what doesn’t, how does it work and how can we implement it – is it even legally possible, and so on.

And after all that, they’ll decide if AI is actually useful for their work. Who knows, maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t.

Technology is a truly wonderful thing, and about as close as humans come to working miracles. Through knowledge and understanding we work out how the universe works and use that to improve the quality of life for humanity.

But that isn’t what the „tech“ industry does…because it isn’t really about technology. Not really.

The „tech“ industry took a bunch of signifiers that were at one time associated with technology, and appropriated them into a subculture completely divorced from the underlying technology it emerged from. Then, they began using that to piggyback on top of the trust people had built up towards technology in order to sell them increasingly diluted business tricks / evade legal regulations, while buying up as many asset as possible and dismantling any/all alternatives to the things they owned.

This is all „tech“ has been for a while now. For example, Uber didn’t do anything meaningfully different than boring ol‘ taxis. But they were able to convince enough confused old judges that what they were doing was different enough that they shouldn’t have to follow all the regulations society had put on taxis based on years of accumulated experience and wisdom. This endured for a bit before people figured out what the scam was and started plugging the loopholes, but by then the founders has cashed out. Now Uber has unambiguously made the world worse for everybody, and is still limping along because nobody wants to be the last one holding the bag.

Same with Amazon. Same with Airbnb. Same with countless others.

And it is largely the same with LLMs. They are basically just a way to churn and reshuffle the Google indexed internet well enough to withstand 5 to 10 minutes of scrutiny by corporate leaders and investors, so they buy the thing / buy into the idea that a company laying off tons of people during a time of declining sales and revenue and increasing costs and interest rates is actually *growing*!

The most promising thing about LLMs isn’t the tech. It is the way they are temporarily tricking people into thinking something new is happening for long enough to allow a bunch of scammers to make their money and get out of dodge.

They are tricking people into paying for more than they’re actually getting, pocketing the money, and catching a bus out of town before people realize it. They are doing to tech what Taco Bell did to ground beef, and what Stringer Bell did to his merchandise: stepping on that shit while selling it for full price and simply changing the name whenever people get wise.

My company implemented an AI system that is obviously meant to do my job. Not only did it fail to do my job correctly, but it also failed to do a bunch of work that our old automated systems used to do just fine. My workload tripled overnight.

Go ahead and lay me off now. I fucking dare you.

FFS. There’s plenty of research out there showing this would happen. Ask chatGPT to summarize