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bubblewand 9 hours ago

My company’s behind the curve, just got nudged today that I should make sure my AI use numbers aren’t low enough to stand out or I may have a bad time. Reckon we’re minimum six months from “oh whoops that was a waste of money”, maybe even a year. (Unless the AI market very publicly crashes first)

bazmattaz 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My manager mentioned that his manager (an executive) is not happy because the org we are in are not using as much tokens as other orgs in the company. Pretty wild

coffeebeqn 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Just have Claude code churn out some Harry Potter fan fiction for an hour a day and you’ll meet your KPI easily

hackable_sand 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It could literally be internal marketing fan fiction on the org's intent to meet KPI's with a focus on synergistic evolution towards x-functional singularity between department hiveminds including a footer on projected outcomes for operational efficiency.

I think LinkedIn is in the dataset, right?

mr_toad 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So management basically have no clue and want you to figure out how to use AI?

Do they also make you write your own performance review and set your own objectives?

datenyan 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> So management basically have no clue and want you to figure out how to use AI?

This is basically the same story I have heard both my own place of employment and also from a number of friends. There is a "need" for AI usage, even if the value proposition is undefined (or, as I would expect, non-existent) for most businesses.

SoftTalker 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Do they also make you write your own performance review and set your own objectives?

Not to get off on a tangent but this has got to be a "tell" for how much a company is managed by formula and how much it's actually got thinking people running things. Every time I've had to write my own review I fill out the form with some corporatese bullshit, my supervisor approves it and adds some more bullshit, it disappears into HR and I never hear anything about it until it's time for the next review, and it starts over again. There isn't even reference to any of my "objectives" from the last review, because that review has simply disappeared.

But I'm sure some HR exec is checking boxes for following "best practices" in employee evaluation.

ileonichwiesz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s exactly what we do at the Fortune 500 company where I work, and it’s surreal.

In my first year I didn’t know any better, so I tried to set myself some actual objectives (learn to use XYZ, improve test coverage by X%, measurable stuff that would actually help).

Fortunately my manager showed me how to do it correctly, so now my goals are to “differentiate with expertise” and to “empower through better solutions”.

Every year I open up the self-review, grade myself a 5/5 on these absurd, unmeasurable goals, my manager approves it, and it disappears off somewhere into the layers and layers of ever-higher management where nobody cares to look at it.

fn-mote 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Look, to make something productive out of it: a job seeker who has high level skills using LLM assistance will be much more valuable than one without the experience. Never mind your current company mangement's policies.

HWR_14 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Management probably also wants them to figure out how to use the laptops, ide and other resources provided to them. Getting a tool for your employees that you've been told is important but have no idea what to do with is a perfectly valid management task.