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Lol. Work is currrently trying to cram Copilot into critical business processes despite it being incapable of doing very basic things.
However, it has shed light on the fact that we have people in management who dont understand the fundamentals of how our business operates. Not that anything will be done about it.
have they tried replacing management with copilot?
I mean with some of the managers I hear about, it couldn't be worse than the current situation....
I've always said that most middle management can be replaced by LLMs. And not even the more expensive models. Gemini flash would probably do about as good of a job as most middle managers.
Of course an LLM couldn't do the job of a really good middle manager. But most middle management is basically doing basically what LLMs do, and hallucinate and get things wrong just as often.
We taught the AI to speak like a middle manager and thought that meant the AI was sentient, instead of realizing that the middle managers aren't