Technology

You know what you are absolutely right — Organisations are indeed falling for what is known as the doorman fallacy: reducing rich and complex human roles to a single task and replacing people with AI. This overlooks the nuanced interactions and adaptability humans bring to their work.

Taken broadly; literal management might be correctly optimizing shareholder returns for next quarter (cut costs at all costs), as the incentives encourage. The goal is no longer to keep having a business next year.

That's like muscle atrophying from lack of gravity. The gravity was the importance of such nuance for, well, making money. In this analogy.

Where did it go - well, to picking the right advertising and promotion system, the right platform. Good or bad attention is more important now than reputation.

One could foresee this when the Web, consisting of web directories, web rings and people talking about things in small communities on forums and in groupchats, with their ICQ number being their main identifier, was defeated by Google. It was the first indication that reputation loses to discoverability.

So, why are they cutting this - because this level has become subject to a higher level of competition. Where the specific business going bad doesn't matter.