But the sales guy said that a programmer using their copilot technology will program at 10x speed. So I guess we can fire 10% to pay for it.

These corporate messages always remind me of that Lego Movie song: Everything is Awesome

I appreciate your compassion and all but like, they just got fired from that place, and the guy is like “to alleviate the pain of being fired from GloboCorp, GloboCorp is giving the former GloboTherapy team a 30 day free trial of GloboCorp brand GloboTherapy”. Like if I got fired from Pizza Hut and they were like “but here’s a 10% off coupon on your next order” I’m not fucking ordering Pizza Hut again for the rest of my life, and that’s just pizza hut

It's scary what a large proportion of upper managers & CEOs use ChatGPT daily for business. It's so convenient when decisions are a, b, or c.

I mean, sure... it's just that GloboCorp builds a whole lot of stuff and this guy is upper-middle management on one of the less pizza-heavy parts of it. Looking at his resume he's been a producer in the publishing trenches for quite a while. These aren't the corporate overlords you're looking for. Jumping into LinkedIn with "here's some how-to-get-hired tips" in general is an extremely dystopian, funhouse mirror thing that people in corporate jobs tend to do. I know those guys, some are super earnest and kind (and most are more self-aware than this guy), but it's all the same blob of online posturing in the alternate reality of corporate social media. I don't know that I see much of a difference between the dissociative tone-deafness of the original post and the performative outrage of the reaction. It's all the same dystopian mess of fake, dehumanized pretense. And man, is it horrifying when that mess decides to become pin-sharp and target the one idiot. I'd burn it all down at this point, honestly. It's not worth it.

It doesn’t matter who he is, you’re submitting irrelevant information into the discussion. If _anyone_ had said “Hey fired Microsoft employees, something I find really helps with depression is the Microsoft XBox Series X”, it would just be an incredibly stupid thing to say to people _who just got fired from Microsoft_. Can we not agree by the rules of regular decency and common sense that that is incredibly tone deaf, regardless of your social bubble, or level of management?

Yes. We have, in fact, agreed on this. To reiterate my first post: > This guy is painfully out of touch > I'm not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post, See, it's one thing to demand that I acknowledge that this guy's post is tone deaf. It's another to demand that I *only* acknowledge that, presumably to give ourselves the license to go drag the guy with zero limitations. For the record, he does not specifically shill Microsoft AI, although he does include it as "LLM tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot)". The transparent attempt to de-brand his suggestion while still including his current employer is probably part of the remarkably tasty ragebait at play here. Social media sucks, corporate social media sucks even more. All of those things can be true at the same time. I don't need to take absolute, unequivocal sides down arbitrary party lines.

Sales guy didn't say working, safe, secure, maintainable or at least of average quality code; just that it's faster. The thing to watch with sales peeps is all the things they don't say.

I dunno, I've got a little bit of mad respect for the evil genius who created linked in. I don't think anyone on this earth would believe, this level of unhinged, God syndrome, getting high on thier own farts, deranged mess, was possible to exist in someone's mind, let alone come out of their mind and be laid out for all the world to see. These people are so disconnected from humans or humanity. It's terrifying.

Sounds like a precursor symptom of what Brian Thompson suffered from.

1. Username checks out. 2. FWIW, a certain mission in a game that came out ~10yrs ago has a CEO that replies with almost exactly that, when confronted with proof they'd knowingly killed a farming settlement for profit. This isn't a new excuse, and shouldn't simply be lampooned. They, and others like them, will do worse than repeat it unironically — they *will* normalize it.

Oh no that was terminal

When you get sucked into a thing or obsess over it for a period of time, you start recommending it as the solution for everything. Everything is a nail and they hold the hammer. It also turns everything you say into a veiled marketing pitch. That’s what has happened with AI brain rot execs and the tech bros that follow them thinking they, too, will eventually be rich.

This is like a plot to a black mirror episode. "Feeling down, lost your job? Talk to your "Support AI"! Only $999.99 a month! Now comes in the form of a virtual dog" . This is pinnacle incompetent management where the mindset is "We spent of bunch of money on this useless piece of crap and we're going to make it work dammit!" They've hit the iceburg and just full steam ahead into it in the hopes the iceberg will sink before the ship does. Never use any LinkedIn managers for any advice.

Looks like they're replacing parts of the hiring process, too. Nearly every single job description and recruiter message looks AI-generated, my resume is at the mercy of some HR algorithm, and who knows what they're cooking up for actual interviews. But they still expect us to specially craft an individual resume and cover letter for each job we apply to? With all this corporate wordsmithing that only ever applies to writing those resumes? Fuck that. Hey ChatGPT, here's a job posting, match it up with my resume and generate a friendly cover letter. The whole process has become so formulaic with corporate-speak that whatever LLMs spit out are way better than anything we'd be able to come up with on our own.

Oohkay dude, I’m not looking for license to dump on the guy, I I just said “that’s kind of a shitty and out of touch thing to do”. If you agree with that, the continued argument you keep mounting with all the irrelevant shit you’re flinging in seems like a really strange way to show it.

MIT did just do a stuudy and found people who use LLMs quite literally are dumber for it. So the outputs are worse, wrong, and you become dumber using it. What a productivity enhancer. Quick buy more stonks.

> I know those guys, some are super earnest and kind (and most are more self-aware than this guy) Condolences. They've normalized it for you and you are becoming them. > I'd burn it all down at this point, honestly. It's not worth it. Yeah. The machine you're grinding is shit. Burn it down and find a grind where you aren't near dystopian slide engineers.