> Let them have chatGPT credits.

This person is so out of touch. It's so absurd that it doesn't even sound like a real story.

that's callous, disconnected and embarrassing.

He knows exactly what he's doing, and he's going to continue to do it until people stop expecting machines to solve all their problems for them.

He calls this his "best advice", definitely sounds like the kind of guy who's so brain dead he asks chat gpt how it would lead a large gaming conglomerate

I do appreciate LinkedIn because it helps surface how social bubbles distort perception. That includes Fedi/Lemmy. This guy is painfully out of touch, but so is everyone else. That's the entire problem of the unmoored, atomized media and interaction landscape we've built for ourselves this century. I mean, I'm not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post, but my first reaction to these is to wonder what dumb, unhinged assumptions my personal reality filters are inflicting on me that won't make headlines, you know?

this is the perfect image for the headline

LLMs ain't gonna replace programmers any time soon (they might get us laid off, but they're not going to do our jobs no matter how much executives want them to), but they seem to have _already_ replaced executives, though sadly without the laying off part. It's becoming more and more evident that these extremely harmful idiots (including CEOs and whatnot) have completely outsourced all their decision making and what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs. We're being ruled by vegetables parroting hallucinating autocomplete engines.

> We're being ruled by vegetables parroting hallucinating autocomplete engines. That's been the case since MBAs in leadership positions have been a thing. They only swapped out the external business analyst consultants with LLMs.

Good point.

I said it before, and I'll say it again - this is a scene from Idiocracy playing before our eyes, only the corporate morons were brainwashed into putting "AI is awesome!" in every sentence instead of "brought to you by Carl's Junior"... ~~Brawndo~~ AI - it has electrolytes!

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.