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It’s amazing how these people can essentially burn billions, trillions combined, even, of dollars on very avoidable mistakes and it’s a “whoopsie” but you ask for a fraction of it to go to the citizens and it’s “a waste of money” or “might not work despite all the evidence from elsewhere”.
And then also the execs get a few million dollars a year in bonuses and such because they’re “so smart and important.”
Did they include "do not hallucinate" in the prompt? Didnt think so. Classic mistake
Unbelievably, this is real advice I've heard from corporate AI experts.
It is included in the guardrails for my orgs copilot integration. Surprisingly, it still hallucinates.
If you ask chatgpt for 100 5 letter words around a single topic, instead of saying it can't give you 100 words it will just start adding 6 letter words and then start cutting off a letter.
It's astounding how much faith people put in this software
I went to a conference a few months ago and the very first speaker gave the following advice with a straight face to a room full of professional software engineers: "Your biggest limitation on your productivity is going to be token management, so just buy as many tokens as you can so you won't even have to think about it." And that guy, supposedly, didn't work for OpenAI or Anthropic.
I kind of hope he's at least getting kickbacks because I would rather he be a secret corporate AI shill than just a submissive gimp for dommy mommy AI industry attempting to recruit more paypigs to her flock. At least that would have more dignity.
"Write program worth 1 million dollars. Do not hallucinate. No mistakes. Good code only. Make secure. No vulnerabilities. Follow all standards. No spaghetti code. No anti-patterns. No deprecated dependencies. Runs fast, and cheap, and completely functionally. Does what it is supposed to. Minimize token use."
Perfect. Iron-clad. Let the profits commence.
Someone got a huge bonus for firing all those engineers.
Hell yeah, they did something similar at Kohl's. Some dip shit executive who doesn't understand how life works because he's neppo baby had a suggestion to save the company MILLIONS.
Fire all the loss prevention people and that will pay for the theft currently happening. Dip shit didn't realize they were actually doing something, and theft went up 5x in under 6 months once people figured out they could walk in, grab a duffle bag, fill it with Nike/UA/whatever and just walk out. They're not allowed to even call the cops.
Bro got a 2 million dollar bonus, and now they can't hire LP back because they obviously moved on.
Let's be clear. The blame shouldn't be on AI but on the fuckwads that made the decision to replace humans.
Surely this time companies will learn from this, right?
...Right?
I recently attended a presentation by NVIDIA at my company, where a summary slide had statements so outlandish, that I had to look around in disbelief. The statements had a trailing asterisk, but no actual clarifying text. I joked that it was for "NVIDIA is not responsible for any business decisions made based on these purely fictive statements" with a font size of 1 slightly different color than the background.
Imagine all the recalls they didn't do because being sued and settling costs less
Well in fairness to ford this is the first time that any company has ever tried to replace all their stuff with AI. There has been no prior attempts and therefore no cautionary tales they could possibly have learnt from. This was an utterly unavoidable mistake and no one needs to be fired over it.
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So scary to realize these business barrons have zero qualms with putting our lives in the hands of untested technology to make a few more buck to light their already full coffers and that it’s already happening with AI
It's because their positions are often like that "rest of the owl" drawing meme, only it makes sense to them because other people do the filling in of the details and solving the problems. So when an AI can produce the early part of that drawing and confidently promises that it can fill in the rest of the owl, they see it as the same as what their teams were doing prior and unironically believe that them saying "ok, go do that" is the important part, so an LLM should be as competent as a team of engineers.
It takes an engineer who knows the material well enough to see that LLM accuracy is incredibly low, even when it seems to be making sense.
The American business model is obsessed with cutting costs to raise profits. Increasing market share and developing new streams of revenue all have an investment cost and take time. Cutting labour has no immediate cost and it makes line go up for the next quarter, and that's what their compensation packages are dependent on.
That's why the idea of AI is so attractive to pretty much every CEO, it's the business hack to reduce labour cost that they've been looking for since we outlawed slavery.
The people responsible for this obviously stupid mistake were replaced, right? Right?
Crazy how these tweets/notes dont have CEO being held responsible !? Like no names nothing. But have one good quarter and they are in FORBES magazine COVER
When a car company has this many recalls, it should be enough to automatically ban all of their unsold vehicles from the streets. Until they pass several inspections and audits.
Who knows how many people died or were irreversibly injured due to at least 11 million faulty cars. That number is still probably on the low end.
They will fire these people again the minute they get AI working the way they want it. They better be getting extra compensation for returning.
There was a brief time in the early 90s when Object-Oriented Programming was still new to the business world. Clueless managers thought it meant somebody could draw a box labeled "Do Payroll" and somehow software would appear. They're doing that same thing now with AI.
Your average MBA
🤣 How Ford Is Embracing AI To Drive Innovation In The Automotive Industry
Nov 23, 2025, 04:58pm EST
Today, Ford is betting on the next stage of technology innovation--AI. With annual revenues of $185 billion, Ford ranks 19 on the Fortune 1000, and markets automobiles and commercial vehicles across the globe. So, how does a company that pioneered an earlier era of innovation adopt the next wave, manifested by artificial intelligence (AI), to optimize its business operations for the next generation of customers?
Could tell this was forbes just from the hogwash in that excerpt.
How did rehire affect pay?
Bingo.
If I were one of those engineers then the only way they'd get me back is by offering me a shit ton more cash.
And even then I'd be actively looking for another job asap because, let's face it, the next time a Ford corporate goon feels they could fire me and replace me with a bag of shit to make their profit line go up then they would do in a heartbeat.
Not sure how it works where you are but in my country companies had started this trend where they began laying off “overpriced” programmers programmers who’d been hired in the dotcom boom, had remained loyal employees for decades and (here’s the real point) were reaching retirement age. They ‘offer a package’ (early retirement) and then manage out anyone who didn’t take it. Comes to pass that these devs have such deep domain expertise alongside their technical abilities that the majority of them get hired back as consultants at what amounts to a name-your-rate deal. Learn from us. Take the package and go freelance.
Hope the engineers asked for significant hikes over their previous salaries
They didn't buy the hype; they knew it was bullshit from the start. Seriously, do we think upper-level management can't understand such a simple message that we've been repeating for years? ... Of course they knew; they always knew; they got bonuses for pretending not to know.
rehire to train the AI, then LAY THEM off again and hire cheaper outsourced tech engineers down the line.
The problem is, "training" the AI is also largely a myth. A bunch of idiots in charge unironically think that if you force all your workers to use llms, llm will magically get better. Like, seriously, they believe that.
The one good thing about ai is that it exposes the morons
Funny thing is, its all in the C-suite.
Listen to your engineers for gods sake
I still think it was a big mistake to bail out the auto makers. Now all cars are just giant phones with some how even worse privacy laws. "Saftey" tech just keeps getting forcefully regulated into them, making them more expensive and making shittier drivers who can't even look in their blind spots anymore because those stupid blind spot detectors. We are pretty much at the point where we have Vin lock parts and can't replace a windshield motor without paying 1.8k to bring it back to the manufacturer, and thats BEFORE the labor from their licensed tech who is the only person who can touch the god damn thing I own and I will be paying off for 48 months at 450 dollars a month.
Oh but don't worry I think its ford themselves that have a patent for self driving cars to be able to repo themselves. So the the poor dealership that fucked me over won't lose any money when I can no longer afford payment on some of the shittiest trucks they've made.
Don't get a car or truck past 2013. Honestly peak cars IMO all existed around 90s-2006. Some good hits in the 80's too but you're prob not going to daily something that old. You all are going to want to learn how to work on your own car. If you don't have the tools and a shop it sucks a bit more and is sketchy sometimes, try to make a car friend or have people to ping off of. You can rent a lot of the tools too but I would insist on buying if its not like 300 bucks all at once. You want a good air compressor, a 12v battery charger/tester, a standard craftsman set, some ramp blocks/jacks, and the basic hand tools and you can do most things just fine.
So much of learning how to fix a car is kind of just having to fix it. I've only had 4 cars ive had to fix and daily drive sense ive started trying. And I came from practically no knowledge. YouTube surprisingly has had every single fix I needed for my exact model, and I would just google my problems and end up on forums from literally 2008 with the exact same problem and it was ususally solved. Most of the time its just replacing sensors, replacing gaskets, changing fluids or cat converter. Sometimes it doesnt fix it, so you just replace the next suspected thing.
You wouldn't vibe code a car...
Im glad they are struggling. All corporations are bad.
"Yeah I'm really into cars"
drives a Mustang
lmao, sure thing, buckaroo
