Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things!
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Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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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
...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.
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Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
@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 -
Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
@david_chisnall
I think a great marketing strategy about now for almost any product or service would be, “ABSOLUTELY NO AI USED OR SOLD!” -
Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
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!"
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Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
@david_chisnall Profits? My sheer brilliance, of course. Losses? Market forces, obviously.
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@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@PizzaDemon @david_chisnall 6 sigma still makes me twitch.
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Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
@david_chisnall And a lot of ketamine.
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Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
@david_chisnall just like moderate Democrats
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R relay@relay.an.exchange shared this topic
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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!"
@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.
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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!"
@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.
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@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.
@paul_ipv6 @david_chisnall (footnote: I *might* be biased, given that my mum taught me to code, way back when.
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@paul_ipv6 @david_chisnall (footnote: I *might* be biased, given that my mum taught me to code, way back when.
)@datarama @paul_ipv6 @david_chisnall Another mom here. I think you have the right kind of bias. (I learned to code 50 years ago.)
