That tracks. Cloudflare was probably overdue to make a good solid run at grabbing defeat out of the jaws of success.
Everyone needs to stop twiddling their thumbs and organize their workplaces.
we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers
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The MBAs have won.
JFC, this marketing speak makes me wanna slap someone. I’m not sure how you can so many words and so little.
Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.
AI is shockingly good at doing just that.
I guarantee a human did not write this.
Well shit. My ADHD brain leaves out words all the time. It was supposed to be “say so little”.
So little what? SO LITTLE WHAT???
why, torgo’s executive powder
I suppose, “write so many words and yet say so little”? Or less awkwardly, “say so little with so many words”.
What did they win? If that works, they were right and deserved to get their way. If it doesn’t, thousands more jobs will disappear as they figure out how they ended up in this metaphorical smoking crater.
If you like spoilers, its going to be the latter.
Employees across the company from engineering to HR to finance to marketing run thousands of AI agent sessions each day to get their work done
Meanwhile the employees:
Having AI do your commits is a great way to game the system. Gives the added benefit of making it look like the AI wrote it for you as well.
This is like measuring a carpenter’s work output by how much they use their hammer, not how much gets actually built. I hope every company that does this sorta bullshit goes belly up.
Using their hammer would be the tools they use to actually code. This is more like measuring a carpenter’s work by how often they get advice from the workers at Home Depot.
Yes.
But I do like that, by this measure, I have attained mastery of plumbing, woodworking, landscaping, and have become a master gardener.
They say you achieve mastery of a skill by spending 10,000 hours receiving advice from Hank over in Home & Garden.
It strikes me that it’s probably because of all the visibity it offers them into what people are doing and drives them to interact with the chatbot instead of each other. Not everything is about having productive workers. A lot of it is about finding people who are compliant suck ups who won’t question the boss no matter what and eliminating anyone with a half a brain cell and an ounce of class solidarity.
Less money for middle class and more money for investors owning Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic.
Make no mistake about what’s happening, that’s wealth transfer from the bottom to the top.And with how this particular AI technology only works by consuming all of the internet’s and our libraries’ data … it’s not just a transfer, it’s pretty much theft.
“works” is a bit too strong
Not even investors. Majority shareholders/BoD.
Uhh… All shareholders get wealthier when the stock price goes up, there’s no magic mechanism where it’s only majority shareholders.
Obviously majority shareholders will make even more, but they all profit from it. I’m not even American and my retirement fund jumped up decently from the S&P 500 going up. Though now I’ve exited from the US ETFs completely. Only Europe and Asia now.
Pennies or a few hundred vs millions was the point.
Every company that fires people for AI is going to regret it so much in the long run…
the long run…
But…line go up for next quarter right?
They’ve already had a spate of serious, unprecedented outages affecting half the internet.
So I guess that means the only place to go from there is to double down, eh?
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Still a short term win. Longer term, this will likely kill youth appetite for pursuing dev as a career option.
it’s also resulting in fresh grads that don’t know anything. this is naturally by design. within the past couple years I’ve come across so many new devs that just don’t know jack. can they answer tickets? sure. can they provide prompts to an agent? yes. beyond that? good luck. and their salaries reflect this.
No one is firing workers for AI. They’re correcting the size of their workforce after decades of overhiring and using AI as an excuse — to make it look like a good, forward-looking business decision, instead of showing that it’s fixing a mistake that went on for so long.
Tons of people are getting fired because the owners think AI can replace them. Doesn’t mean the AI can do the work properly, but they are getting fired anyway.
I know a person that works at an AI startup and they convinced a company to replace their HR department with AI a while back. Funnily enough, that startup’s “AI” is largely “Actually Indians.” Their service is an agent that writes its own “tools” to solve problems/complete tasks, but the tools often don’t work, so they have a large team of devs in India rewrite them or do the tasks.
Nah I’m sorry you’re dead wrong. My last job we straight up got rid of 95% of our HR department and all of our interns and were replaced with ChatGPT Enterprise licenses. Then they laid off the graphic design department and left just the head of the department and 2 staff. Then I was laid off alongside over half of the IT department.
If your company did indeed lay off 95% of HR and replaced it with ChatGPT you need to find another job somewhere like now. They are about two lawsuits from not existing.
Had you read all the words in my comment, you’d see I’m no longer at that job.
I understand what you were told, but none of those functions are being replaced by AI, they functionally cannot be.
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Jokes on them I’ve been training ai to seize the means of production
A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.
So AI bad or good? Getting whiplashed here.
I’ve recently found it ironic that cloudfire classifies me as human based on how I sort AI generated images, presumably as judged by AI.
The main selling point of that feature is to charge for access to scraping websites.
They don’t care that your website gets scraped, they care about getting paid when someone does it.
keep away AI bots from scanning websites
Specifically: Scrapers operated by individuals rather than big, important companies. On one hand, this significantly cuts down on the volume of scraping. On the other, it restricts control of the AI market to a select class of people who are important enough to get by the bot protection.
The root problem, obviously, is that the “AI market” is generally directed at that select class.
AI bad or good?
AI good. Non-rich people bad.
Obviously, its a non-binary answer.
Besides which, why wouldnt they make money preventing other people from scraping websites, while scraping the traffic that flows through their network.
ceo bad. pumch up
Brave move after recent years
