Fuck AI

Where do y'all even get these memes from

I'm gonna save it for future purposes

We really need to just start sending texts.

This apocalypse could have been an email.

I mean, one person or a few replaced by bots could be a lack of professionalism on the attendees' part. All of them? You suck and nobody has time for your bullshit.

The person said this is a webinar, which probably means attendance is optional…

It makes sense to me. Different people might need to get different things out of the meeting.

Sometimes at work I'll need one piece of information, but it's contained in a thirty minute presentation. Or I might not know how much information I need, so I'll start with a summary. If that's not enough, I'll watch a recording of the presentation.

So we can waste more resources

If I were running an AI, and I saw 25 people each pointing their note taking bots at the same webinar, I'd have it do the work once, and send it to each of them.

There is no reason to think that each of these 25 note taking bots is working separately and simultaneously on the exact same task.

My work uses one ai summerizer for all attendees that gets sent out with the recording.

Giving people their own is just stupid.

I like to have a group of people forced to listen to me. Makes me feel a little better about myself for a few minutes.

If this isn't true, I hope they don't read this and take this idea because goddamn.

Edit: Actually, I just thought about it again and I do not care.

I had the same thought! "Isn't that what happened in Real Genius?!"

Because their entire job likely is selling these kinds of "solutions" to people

Really? Ours just ok'd the use of them with external client meetings and have been using them internally for a year. I do not use it, but everyone else does because "it's the future, you'll get left behind!" Everyday, I feel like im taking the crazy pills.

The only real solution is to actually care enough about the work to read the email. The trouble is that so many companies these days do meaningless middleman shit that people couldn't give a fuck about. We're headed straight for an economy substantially consisting of work that doesn't matter, largely being done by bots that can't think properly.

... Which would be fine I guess, as long as the ruling class would be so good as to offer a substantial sinecure to the populace. But instead they will likely insist that we quietly die someplace they don't have to watch.

Half of the participants don't contribute anything, but need to look busy so they have to lengthen the call with inane banter.

Most of my emails have nothing to do with me, but everyone is CCing me on stuff, just in case I might be relevant somehow. Particularly and they made a convenient distribution list that includes 300 people and people send to it all the time. Someone I've never heard of on the other side of the world was going to be unavailable because they were sick and I get an email. The automated test for some project I have nothing to do with failed again last night and I get an email. Every morning I am greeted with about 100 emails that happened overnight. Even the handful of threads where I have some relevance, it goes off topic and I have no idea if I'm relevant to the new message or not until I read it.

Corporate communication is just screwed.

I will spend part or my Monday setting up 2 meetings to follow up people who didn’t answer the message I sent them last week. I need a simple data from one, and a 2 minute task from the other.

This is a company I joined 3 years ago, and was baffled in the first weeks how nobody answers their emails, not even IT. So I started sending MS Teams messages like others, and that worked well so far, but now they also seem to have lost efficiency.

Work would be easier if everybody just respected others enough to answer their messages. We don’t need to be best friends, just pls everybody do your job…

Edit: even better, if I didn’t have to chase people for simple data and giving acces rights to a bunch of non-confidential shit that is gatekeeped like trade secrets

Lmao I would have read emails if I wasn't drowning in irrelevant emails and they forced us to switch to outlook which not only got rid of all the automated filtering and sorting I had setup but also lacked the features to recreate them. I used to be on top of email and slack channels but they just added so much mandatory shit that I just couldn't wade through anymore. So, "We can't send emails because people don't read them" in my experience has been a management problem, not an employee problem. This was Oracle though, and they're particularly bad at treating employees as human beings

From experience, a lot of companies tend to be propped up by like 10% of their developers doing 90% of the work, maybe 50% of developers doing the last 10%, and then like 40% of developers either doing fuck all or actively harming the codebases and making more work for the other 60%.

Hello, how do I join the 40%?
I want to coast for a while

agree on everything except I hate turning my camera on, fuck that

I'm with you on a lot of even most developers at a company making things worse rather than better.

However if for some reason a webinar is only going to be "live" with no recording to be provided, and further it may be a pointless session you don't need but work mandates, then I would be firing off whatever recording/transcription/summarization they allow me. Like my employer has manated every employee regardless of job attending 60 hours of AI webinars in the year, to give the illusion of being in tune with AI without bothering to actually have a plan. Mostly it's been people rambling without any actionable stuff trying to sound smart, absolutely every bit of it has been superficial, the speakers at best have toyed with prompts and read articles saying Nvidia gpus are useful. Not one of them have so much as even run a local model. There's nothing in these 60 mandated hours that will do anything but waste time.

Even for mandatory "all hands" where we can't all questions but at least I want to know what they are thinking, I'll get a recording and watch it at 2x speed.