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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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[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Claims Adjuster.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 218 points 1 week ago (11 children)

“They ruthlessly cut costs, R&D, and employee benefits and then replace existing employees with overseas contractors. Innovation and growth take a back seat to sheer profitability.”

This is the operating manual that explains why IgniteTech’s much-publicized AI purge feels more like a familiar private-equity play.
[...]
IgniteTech is owned by ESW. For anyone who’s watched the ESW orbit, that vagueness is not accidental. ESW’s playbook, summarized in a long explanatory dossier that has circulated inside the industry, is blunt: buy distressed software, strip costs, move work to an hourly contractor model through a unit like Crossover (which has been described in Forbes as a “global software sweatshop”), and squeeze recurring revenue out of an existing customer base rather than invest in new products.

[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Very interesting. I appreciate the additional information. Saying its for AI but moving it to overseas contractors instead of actually moving it to AI that is actually overseas contractors (like that one AI company that was outed as being 700 Indian developers) is honestly kinda funny. AI is enshittification given form, I suppose.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

I mean they have added a chatbot to their website and I'm sure they have replaced overseas first line support in many products with chatbots as well to encourage their customers to give up on getting support (and ensure that the customers that prevails and get sent to a human coworker are sufficiently pissed off).

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Did AI build that dogshit website of theirs too?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

looks best without a browser at all.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Does it load exceptionally slow for you too?

[–] evol@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

https://ignitetech.ai/ it has to be like purposely bad I vibe code internal frontends and ive never had something look this bad

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[–] evol@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

Where can I sign up

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

ignitiontech, where they ignited thier own company to the ground.

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[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 21 points 1 week ago

Incredibly punchable face

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