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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again (fortune.com)
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“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Previously I added to my routine, to ask two stupid queries of ai every day, because that was the metric we were judged on. I can get that out of the way quickly, and get to my work.

Now we have to use a new ai tool that has a lot more telemetry, thanks Microsoft. Unfortunately I don’t know what metric they are using and the tool spies on everything. I can’t even just not use the ai features because the tool is horrible

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago

The basic stats I can see are the prompt count, number of active days, and last active date. By default reports are anonymised but that can be turned off by the admin.

Iirc paid licenses let you do data purview searches on prompts. But I can't see that in my one as we only use the basic.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

Use it as a dumb worklog sometimes. Tell it what you were already gonna do and ask if it would do the same. It's almost always gonna agree. Then just ignore it. If somebody AI obsessed pulls out the full logs they're gonna see you're doing what the AI said was good. (basically Inception, lol)