Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things!

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@david_chisnall

> "leader"
> look inside
> follows everyone else

[bitprophet@social.coop]

@david_chisnall 💯

[mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@david_chisnall TBF, as long as Wallstreet promotes stupid shit, its CEO"s job to do stupid shit. The system is rigged for stupidity.

[synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net]

@david_chisnall nailed it

[dat@social.g33ky.de]

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange it's called the buran-principle

[felichsdakatze@mastodon.social]

@david_chisnall

The real problem is the makets pile in to the first company that does it, so everyone else by default has to join in.

The CEOs need metrics they can make pretty graphs to put in shareholder reports, so you end up with "use ai" mandates.

If share price goes up throughout any part of this process the CEO has made a "rational" and "correct" decision according to the people that write the CEOs cheques.

Layoffs arev the default cost saving tool.../cont'd

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@david_chisnall

No sarcasm detected.

#AI #Insanity #Money

[felichsdakatze@mastodon.social]

@david_chisnall

...so you can bank on announcements citing ai led productivity gains, and then later as necessary survival measures as ai led productivity gains fail to meet expectations.

Rehiring later will be quitely done.

By then, the CEOs have met targets, given shareholders what they want, and taken their bonuses. Its literally win-win for those in the game. The rest of us aren't even pawns in the game, as pawns have some value. We factor as an expendable commodity.

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@david_chisnall
Past examples include
- off-shoring many things
- re-shoring a good portion of those things
- hiring McKenzie or Bain as cover for your layoffs
- putting most of your data in "the cloud"
- pulling back the most vital of that data
- making and maintaining platform apps instead of a really good website
- using a closed 3rd party platform as the primary conduit to your customers, vendors, and partners.
- donating to a presidential inauguration
- TQM, 6 sigma, KPIs, ABM, HBR TLAs

[cynblogger@sfba.social]

@david_chisnall
I think a great marketing strategy about now for almost any product or service would be, “ABSOLUTELY NO AI USED OR SOLD!”

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@david_chisnall

every mom ever: "if everyone else were jumping off a bridge, would you jump off too?"

every CEO: "it's the new trend! jump or be left behind! jumping i go!"

[wildeyedboyfromfreecloud@masto.ai]

@david_chisnall Profits? My sheer brilliance, of course. Losses? Market forces, obviously.

[wildeyedboyfromfreecloud@masto.ai]

@PizzaDemon @david_chisnall 6 sigma still makes me twitch.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@david_chisnall And a lot of ketamine.

[wonofone@mastodon.world]

@david_chisnall just like moderate Democrats

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @david_chisnall This is why I've always suggested people say things like "so easy, even your CEO could use it" rather than the more common one.

[antopatriarca@mathstodon.xyz]

@paul_ipv6 @david_chisnall Indeed, I’m increasingly convinced the reason CEO are convinced AI may substitute everyone is that it can surely substitute their work and they think they are god so clearly it should be able to substitute everybody else. After all they are paid as thousands of them.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @david_chisnall (footnote: I *might* be biased, given that my mum taught me to code, way back when. :) )

[wendynather@infosec.exchange]

@datarama @paul_ipv6 @david_chisnall Another mom here. I think you have the right kind of bias. (I learned to code 50 years ago.)

[hausgeist@todon.eu]

@david_chisnall It's cute how you think CEOs to be capable of recognizing them as stupid things before also doing the things.