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60 employees who can’t be productive without AI?
And this is progress?
My company is pivoting hard to Claude for everything, and besides the fact that it's irritating as fuck to use, it has me worried about shenanigans like in this article. For almost 50 years, they've had a "no reliance upon 3rd party platforms for core functions," but since they hired an AI apologist to the C-suite, all that has gone out the window in a matter of months.
Got me thinking I should warm up my resume...
Don’t wait, start now. The job market is a nightmare and finding one that isn’t being consumed by incompetent C-level AI FOMO is getting harder every day. I work on life-saving medical equipment and AI is being pushed on us for things that could literally kill people if not done correctly. Why would anyone spend 30 minutes using AI and risking people’s lives when I can just write it myself in 5 or 10? Madness. Complete, society-scale madness. The people pushing AI have no fucking idea what they are doing or how engineering works. People are going to die.
I’ve been unemployed for going on 18 months. It’s awful and the market is the worst it’s been since I’ve been working (15 years or so).
Just got let go last week, not ready for the journey it’s taking me on.
That’s sucks. Best of luck to you!
You too friend!
Its ok tho, there's no recession, becuz stock marmket!!!!! 11!1!11!!!
My company is doing the exact same thing.
Why everyone is so eager to add an expensive middleman into their workflow is beyond me.
If you're being forced to use it, just try to convince them to make whatever workflows you use be AI agnostic, and not required to still function.
As long as you do that, you won't run into this.
That's essentially what I'm doing right now, and thus far, they still want workers who understand the code. However, my manager has already said that his boss had it compose a few scripts, and he thought he could therefore replace an entire workflow.
Thankfully, my manager talked him down and pointed out that it still got several nontrivial things wrong and that taking humans out is dangerous when it comes time to push to production.
But it's concerning to see that the higher ups don't understand what it is and what its limitations are.
yikes! How long until his boss is like, you're getting in the way of my plans and are wrong, fires that boss for a yes man, and then boom.
Yup. For sure. Its a matter of when.
Your point is well-taken, but this is also exactly why AI reliance is dangerous. Anyone who sees this should realize the precarity of relying on products that can just be locked away from you.
Windows 11, Onedrive, Intel Management Engine, Google accounts, ...
France's government is actively leaving Windows for Linux as you read this. I'm about to follow suit, too.
Like Gmail? Google drive? Slack?
I'm not defending AI, but I can come up with >10 products that would absolutely cripple the company I work at if the provider suddenly says "Soz, terms of service violation".
Vendor reliance is dangerous. That doesn't just apply to AI. If the company in OP's message had both Claude and Gemini they'd been okay, so the problem isn't with AI explicitly - the problem is with reliance on services that are critical for workflows, and providers being able to change their mind at a moment's notice.
In any case, leaving aside where the problem is, the idea that 60 employees can't use Natural Intelligence to do their jobs means there's something really wrong with that company...
kind of a difference between infrastructure for daily operations and AI though? well, there should be....
1000% this.
It's a Faustian bargain, a company gives up all of their internal IT staff and hardware and becomes completely dependent on a vendor for critical business processes. It's like the opposite of insurance, they're saving some money by risking a total loss of their ability to do business should the vendor pull support.
I don't know why any company with hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on commercial LLM APIs wouldn't just build and self-host their own LLM fine-tuned on data relevant to their work...
(obligatory Dune quote)
Github, Jira, AWS, Azure, any of the cloud versions of absolutely anything reslly
It's not that they can't be productive. Right now at least, what AI does is amplify how much work you can do. One of my friends codes for a big company that uses state of the art Claude models and he says that the system does 80-90% of the coding grunt work and the job is more of an editor and making sure everything is correctly annotated so that humans can understand what's happening in the code in the future. This means that work that might have taken months he can complete in a week or two.
This approach to coding is exactly what creates the problem. They will find out the hard way if they can continue to be productive when something breaks and AI is not available for whatever reason. Does anyone know how to fix it? Is the documentation sufficient to understand what the AI did?
This is how the Adeptus Mechanicus is born.
Good analogy. I'm gonna steal that :D
This makes me so happy about my employer. I'm sysadmin for a newspaper.
We had an all-company test run 2 weeks ago to answer the question "What if we're hacked?"
Turns out we're able to produce a printed and online newspaper within a work day if NONE of our normal IT systems (hardware, software, e-mail, network) are accessible.
Everything we need has a redundancy that's kept completely physically separated from the network until the day it's needed.
A business that has a workable disaster plan? Well done.
This is the current web with its social media like life. Say something, be outraged.
But let's be honest. We really have no idea what to the true story is. There are so many ways to spin a story. Probably both sides fucked up.
The one thing we know is fucked up, is that anthropic is acting like a startup. If they want to work with businesses they need a dedicated support team.
I dont know if its because its bern a long day and i am exhauseted but i am tired of being outraged.
Regardless of the fact that work has ground to a halt the CEO will continue to claim productivity has never been higher since implementing AI
Fuck AI and all, but to be faaaiiiiir, if you take away most people's computers they would be far less efficient than someone that did the same job without one 50 years ago.
In the profession I recently retired from, if they suddenly went back 50 years in tech the global economy would crash, and even a 20-30 year regression in tech would seriously fuck things up until people adjusted. And even then they wouldn't be able to reach the same levels of efficiency.
Yeah, I think this is normal. You can probably say the exact same sentence for any year to have occurred in the last several hundred years. Probably all the way back to whenever we transitioned to specialization for production scaling. You know, when someone figured out you can make more clocks per day if you have a nut producer, a spring producer, a frame producer, …
Eh consider it like a power outage. These corporations don't deserve more than automated slop. If that system is down, it's an earned break