I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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Peter Girnus;

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it “digital transformation.”

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

11 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  2. What a shit show! I’d love to short the hell out of this, but I don’t have enough money to stand against the ‘market’!

  3. I’ve seen articles that claim AI can make developers 40X more productive. If that’s true then those developers are just sitting around on their hands these days because they are outstripping everyone else’s ability to keep up. And if they are idle then they aren’t 40X more productive anymore.

  4. The ‘X’ post that Kate shared here is arguably one of the most important posts on the platform all year.

    I use AI every day in my programming work. But where I went wrong with it is when I started trusting it. Then it became a matter of one stop forward, 3 steps back. I still use it – several AIs, actually – but I’m skeptical about every single thing it tells me.

    1. I am a luddite and don’t understand this AI planet but, why are you using it if you can’t trust it and need to be skeptical? What do you do to get past the skepticism?

    2. So it’s like when our managers started using offshore IT services? Lots of promises, lots of activity, but you can’t trust a damn thing they promise to do if they can’t do it immediately? But the managers all get bonuses for doing it ’cause it’s the latest IT fad?

      1. Not just IT. Last employer was sending engineering work to India because…well we had to check-revise-resend-repeat.
        What’s the savings? Oh it’s the labor rate spread …hmm?

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