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AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by mrguyorama »

dgellow wrote: post #84
tosh wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

does this work better than putting a bag of popcorn into the microwave?

You can buy the corn by the kilo instead of buying small bags of microwave popcorn every time. It’s way cheaper after a few batches, and you can add whatever you want. It’s also neat because you don’t need any oil or butter, I just add a little bit of water, sugar or salt. You can even first caramelize the sugar a bit with the water (in the bowl), before adding the corn. I think I got such a bowl for below 10€

Costco microwave popcorn is about 36 cents a bag

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by episteme »

Manfrednotfunny wrote: post #55
paimapi wrote: post #34

"74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends, and 44% said they would defer to its reasoning over their own insights" it's sad that c-suite believes the advice given by an LLM for a Platonically ideal software stack that looks nothing like the actual implementation moreso than their own ICs. it just reads as more evidence that LLMs are better at replacing leade…

C* can mean anything. The CTO of my last company thought that an API request under 1 second is okay as the customer at that endpoint wouldn't mind anything under 1 second. I explained to him that under 1 second for this particular task is crazy high. He explained to me that it works fine as it is and its only one customer (the company customer) complaines to him about this issue every few month. I fixed the SQL query…

Sounds like the CTO is right though? Why prioritize this? Surely there are way more important things to do. You are judging him for not thinking it’s important because you said so, that’s not strong argument.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

thechao wrote: post #80
aduffy wrote: post #65

It’s been wild watching smart people have their brain cooked on a constant diet of X and LLMs in the past two years. Models are excellent at code but they are not people managers. My guess this will ultimately lead a bunch of companies to revert to average returns or fold. Cal Newport was right.

> Models are excellent at code Models are infinitely willing to code. The code they produce makes me want to pour one out for Knuth.

Yeah, models aren't good at code any more than they are good at people. They turn it out very fast, but that isn't actually useful when the code needs to be carefully reviewed to find the land mines and questionable design decisions.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by 27183 »

ElevenLathe wrote: post #81
27183 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"clanker wankers" has a nice ring to it

It goes back way before AI. Leadership is a real thing but I've rarely seen manager exhibit it. If we are to use it at all, it should have to be earned.

Yeah it's true, and the higher up the ladder you go the worse it gets.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by dgellow »

mrguyorama wrote: post #91
dgellow wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy the corn by the kilo instead of buying small bags of microwave popcorn every time. It’s way cheaper after a few batches, and you can add whatever you want. It’s also neat because you don’t need any oil or butter, I just add a little bit of water, sugar or salt. You can even first caramelize the sugar a bit with the water (in the bowl), before adding the corn. I think I got such a bowl for below 10€

Costco microwave popcorn is about 36 cents a bag

Where I am in Germany 1kg of popcorn bags goes ~4.5€-13€ , and I see 1kg of popcorn corn for ~3.5€. If you consume a lot of it it's worth it! (and healthier if you don't use oil/butter)

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by owebmaster »

episteme wrote: post #92
Manfrednotfunny wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

C* can mean anything. The CTO of my last company thought that an API request under 1 second is okay as the customer at that endpoint wouldn't mind anything under 1 second. I explained to him that under 1 second for this particular task is crazy high. He explained to me that it works fine as it is and its only one customer (the company customer) complaines to him about this issue every few month. I fixed the SQL query…

Sounds like the CTO is right though? Why prioritize this? Surely there are way more important things to do. You are judging him for not thinking it’s important because you said so, that’s not strong argument.

That's how you chase efficiency/quality which is one of the CTOs responsibility. Small effort for huge gains are the most optimal changes.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by chermi »

The most glaring and revealing example of this is travis kalanick talking about QM. It should be embarrassing and disqualifying for leadership to be so easily fooled, but he just got a shit ton of money for his new startup

"I'll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I'll start to get to the edge of what's known in quantum physics and then I'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it's vibe physics. And we're approaching what's known. And I'm trying to poke and see if there's breakthroughs to be had. And I've gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.". And that was mid 2025, when the models were much much worse.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by insane_dreamer »

> In one recent survey, 74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends, and 44% said they would defer to its reasoning over their own insights.

looks like companies can replace their C-suite and really start saving money!

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by econ »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #98

> In one recent survey, 74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends, and 44% said they would defer to its reasoning over their own insights. looks like companies can replace their C-suite and really start saving money!

I've thought about this (for laughs) for many decades (pros and cons) The further up the hierarchy the harder it gets to be in many places at the same time and to talk with everyone simultaneously. You get a level of abstraction (and a game of telephone) that might be worse than LLM hallucinations.

Being able to talk to the higher-ups directly 24/7 all at the same time and as much as you want would be a game changer.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by ndriscoll »

tosh wrote: post #51
dgellow wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get yourself one of those popcorn microwave bowls: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71mA19sd51L.jpg You get hot popcorn in ~2min without the need for a whole machine you will have to clean and maintain. I got one as a gimmick a few years ago and it has become one of our favorite evening snack

does this work better than putting a bag of popcorn into the microwave?

At least in the US, bagged popcorn uses synthetic "butter" flavoring that can cause lung damage. Look up popcorn lung.
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