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      Whoa. Nobody said that. Just stop paying them and let them figure out they’ve been let go instead of telling them. Less aggressive, more passive aggressive.

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        When they come to ask what is happening, pretend they’re not there. When they lawyer up: talk about their position in the past tense. When the lawyer picks up on it, act surprised: “Oh, yes! We let him go months ago, but he never really got the message.”

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    “It was just a way for them to sound smart and I really hate that,” the CEO argued.

    Aww, poor lil’ fella, tried to juice his stock by selling AI as the second coming, and now he’s mad that other CEO’s are trying to juice their stock by trying to sell AI as the second coming.

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    Oh, but “we are cutting workforce to invest in AI” sounds much better than “we are cutting workforce, because we struggling in current economy”.

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      Or "we’re cutting workforce because we’re greedy sociopaths more inclined to appease share holders’ betting habits interest than create a quality product that our longstanding workforce understands and can support, even though AI can’t really’

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      That’s the rub. They don’t even say “we are cutting workforce to invest in AI”, they say “we are cutting workforce because we’ve already replaced people with AI”, which they have not. They’re just such hype driven buffoons that they actually believe that LLMs are going to easily replace the people they just cut in their hubris.

      Saying they’ve cut people to invest in AI is actually a little more honest because it admits that they haven’t actually already succeeded.

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    “The narrative that connects AI to job loss, for many of the CEOs that are doing it — it is just too lazy,” Huang told Channel News Asia. “AI has just arrived, how is it possible they’re already losing jobs?”

    Why are these guys so dumb, how did they get into positions of power? I think mostly just by being willing to stand up in front of a crowd and camera? AI hasn’t just arrived, it’s been improved over the last couple of years, and has become much more capable recently.

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      It’s not necessarily that they’re dumb, it’s that they think others are dumb enough to believe any old crap they say.

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        I genuinely think they’re dumb, they have no sense of the fact that their greed and gatekeeping will bring about a serious shift in society. They should be trying to create new job opportunities and programs for people to innovate, yet we’re gridlocked in a shit late-stage capitalist society where we can’t actually do anything because of weird zoning laws and regulations.

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    Where I work the leadership 100% tels people if they dont spend tokens they get canned. Theres dashboards and everything. I hate it but appreciate not being lied to, at least.

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      I tokenmaxx as much as I can. Every report, design doc, or piece of code I prompt I keep bragging how it’s written purely with AI. Nevermind that for each single-line fix I have to write a whole paragraph explaining how and where to apply the fix. And how for reports and docs I feel like a teacher grading a student that winged the test.

      At this point I just find it amusing and try to see how far I can push it.

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        Shiet.

        Right at the fall of Soviet union the proverb emerged:

        “They pretend they pay us money, and we pretend we work.”

        Same vibe, honestly.

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    When Nvidia jumped on the AI hype train at the expense of retail customers, the first thing I did was pull my $ out of their stock and invest in Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing and Samsung electronics. Chips are still going to get made; now the fabricators can get my investment $ directly and Jensen Huang can continue to enjoy the smell of his own brand without my cash.

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    I think they stopped telling workers anything a while back. They have LLMs for that. Exec messages have always been full of corporate lingo, canned legal language and artificial energy, so to be fair they have always been prime use cases for LLMs, but at least before you could still catch hints of their personality or a glimpse of humanity sometimes. Now that’s all gone. They have become at least 10x more efficient with layoffs though.

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    This guy is an abslout lying cunt, and always will be, same guy who’s running a 5.2 trillion dollar company and was worried about their profits cause people are questioning their wretched AI schemes

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    Lol it seems they are feeling that gaining public opinion might be important to try and get their awful plans off the ground