| ▲ | MrMember a day ago |
| It's a positive for a nameless middle manager somewhere who can show their boss a graph with a line moving to the right and up with a title like "AI Adoption Across Platforms" and hit their bonus target. |
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| ▲ | DeepYogurt a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is 100% the why. |
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| ▲ | Uehreka a day ago | parent [-] | | Whenever I see this much vehement agreement about something on HN, it sets off serious groupthink alarm bells. Idk what the answer is, but it is not 100% this. It’s too simple and satisfying of an answer to be true. | | |
| ▲ | dijit a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I understand what you mean, but it does match MBA/mckinsey thinking very closely. Make a metric a goal, work tirelessly towards that new metric. Does it make the product better? Well, the product is already made- so it doesn’t make a difference. It’s only software developers who think a product is never “done”- normal MBA thinking is “we have invested in R&D, now there is a product, how do we get as many users of our product as possible”. | |
| ▲ | array_key_first 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You don't think the reason we have seemingly broken optimization is because poorly thought out metrics are being gamed? That's all its been for the last few decades. Everyone is now "data driven" and "metrics oriented". That's a footgun - if people can game it, they will, and numbers don't say what people think they say. | |
| ▲ | dax_ a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Normally I would agree, but I've seen this happen too often. Common sense be damned, just make the number look good. |
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| ▲ | nticompass 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 3 Billion Devices run Java, I mean Copilot. |
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| ▲ | rolph a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| if you work in a restauraunt, and decide salt is cheaper than sugar, and fill the bowls like that, someone will find out, like your manager. telling your boss we are selling sugar, when its actually salt, is a good recipe for footgunning. |
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| ▲ | weikju a day ago | parent | next [-] | | No, the boss is asking for more salt. Employees are then replacing sugar with salt and getting bonuses, no matter what the customer reactions are. | | |
| ▲ | colejohnson66 a day ago | parent [-] | | And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you. Unless you’re the only deli in town. | | |
| ▲ | weikju a day ago | parent | next [-] | | But all the other delis are doing it as well. So is your supermarket. So is your farmer (somehow they figured out how to add salt to the veggies they sell at the farmer's market!)... Whaddya gonna do? Grow your own? THE SEEDS SHALL HAVE SALT TOO, has been decreed... | |
| ▲ | xgkickt 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Then your social media & newsfeeds are buzzing about salted coffee, and your work has mandated salt in the coffee, insisting that it increases productivity, and if you’re not partaking you might fail your next performance review. | |
| ▲ | reactordev a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | “We’d like to introduce you to Copilot Enterprise”… Yes, the only deli in town. Office, Server, Desktop, now your TV, pretty soon your car. | |
| ▲ | baby_souffle a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you. Right, but that's somebody elses problem a few quarters from now. | | |
| ▲ | malfist a day ago | parent [-] | | I got my promo for increasing salt adoption, what do I care? I'm jumping ship next week |
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| ▲ | lamontcg a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Unless you’re the only deli in town. pretty much. back in the before times, we broke up AT&T, but we don't do that anymore. |
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| ▲ | readthenotes1 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Accountability and responsibility are not so clear and large, insanely profitable, behemoths like Microsoft. | | |
| ▲ | themafia a day ago | parent [-] | | Yea, and that's the reason we pay taxes and tolerate a government, they're supposed to provide a counter force to this apparent corruption. |
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| ▲ | hiddencost a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | You've clearly never worked at a large tech company | | |
| ▲ | shermantanktop a day ago | parent [-] | | “In Q2 our P0 goal is to deliver Project Footgun. Your focus on delivering this important goal will put us in a good position to finally fund your favorite tech debt projects.” | | |
| ▲ | malfist a day ago | parent [-] | | Its now Q2, you worked your ass off on delivering Project Footgun, excitedly signing in the next morning to work on that tech debt to a message from your manager that the PMs didn't see value in the P1's and were transitioning to Project Footgun 2.0 The Shotgun |
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