https://archive.is/DI4Cq And the verge is covering it too: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/956316/ford-quality-...
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Thanks GPT
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#13I would literally be homeless before I went back to a company that fired me to replace me with AI, then asked me to come back.
Or maybe people just have bills to pay and/or want to support their families. A little critical thinking and empathy goes a long way...
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#14I would literally be homeless before I went back to a company that fired me to replace me with AI, then asked me to come back.
When you first lose everything, in the process you end up having to pawn expensive principles like that, so when other things like this happen, it's easy to seize the opportunity.
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#15I would literally be homeless before I went back to a company that fired me to replace me with AI, then asked me to come back.
How about if they doubled your previous salary?
I guess the crux of the issue is that there's no guarantee that the company would not find a different, equally harebrained, reason to lay GP off.
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#16The first attempt failed, so they caved in, but they’ll try again after a while and lay those people off again.
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#17And they just go back to work like nothing happened?
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#18> The return of the veteran engineers at Ford cuts against the prevailing wisdom — and fear — that AI will replace all kinds of knowledge workers. But Ford found the machines couldn’t replace experience.
I'm not sure this story is illustrative of that, when you have a VP of engineering saying “Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles.”
He's saving face while almost certainly trying to figure out how to make the new systems work so that next time he won't need to rehire engineers.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about if they doubled your previous salary?
I guess the crux of the issue is that there's no guarantee that the company would not find a different, equally harebrained, reason to lay GP off.
There's no guarantee in any job that you won't be laid off.
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#20> Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.
Clearly a lot of careful thought went into their strategy of using AI and firing engineers.