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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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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 107 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels. They were the “most resistant,” he said, voicing various concerns about what the AI couldn’t do, rather than focusing on what it could. The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.

So the people that had an actual idea of what the implications of using it might be weren't on board? Huh. Weird.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Like the guy with the carbon fiber submarine. Every engineer told him it couldn't be done, so he kept firing them until he had a staff of young, inexperienced engineers who would do what they were told, and just collect their paychecks.

Now their boss is dead, and there are no more paychecks.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well at least that problem fixed itself.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago

I wished more of society's problems were solved that way, with the guy responsible for such a stupid concept paying the ultimate price for his arrogance.

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