My favorite part of that story is that McKinsey both advised WarnerBros Discovery to make that change, and then advised them to change it back, making millions each time. I wish I made that much money being bad at my job.

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overfeed 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

McKinsey and other management consultants exist to launder decisions made by upper management that management do not want to face consequences for. "It's not my fault, the consultants advised me that was the best option"

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6510 4 hours ago | parent [-]

One of those jobs LLMs can easily take over.

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maccard 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nope the entire point of the job is to have a person to blame when it goes wrong.

	▲	nom 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the blame is absorbed by McKinsey the corporation, not the people working there they'll just use AI like everyone else but charge extra for it

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dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not sure if you are suggesting the CEO hedging their bets or the consultants, but I'd say both of those jobs could be replaced by an LLM.

	▲	newsclues 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can replace low and maybe mid skill employees with software but it’s the high end ones consultants or CEO that are great at their jobs with good software can be orders of magnitude more efficient.

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Melatonic an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They also somehow made everyone download new apps because apparently the old one couldn't be updated.

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nikanj 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You misunderstand their job. They get paid millions to carefully construct a report that supports whatever stupid plan the coke-fueled execs came up with.

	▲	paimapi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They are also functionally both a way for certain well-connected shareholders to exert disproportionate influence and a placating propaganda machine for the shareholders who aren't Grease on the very corroded wheel of modern capitalism