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Slop signalling may be the new power play. Nothing quite says "FU" like a low effort AI hallucinations.
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> the idea that Amazon would allow human bottlenecks to appear across projects and underlying infrastructure is ridiculous. Why?
Amazon is fairly well known to ruthlessly optimize every process. So if they're having humans proofread what the AI produces, they must have found that to be necessary.
The problem we're seeing across many professions is AI output is not getting vetted by knowledgeable people, whether it's an experienced analyst, senior engineer, expert attorney, or the resident physician. At best they skim, at worst they don't even see it at all before it's published, pushed to production, distributed to clients, or submitted to the court. In many cases the skills are available in house to do the n…
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So many people get buried in tech debt due to constantly choosing "let's be productive now and iterate later". Then later never comes. This was already proof that, when a company is given the chance of getting a reward now and putting in the effort later, they will take the reward and postpone the effort indefinitely. AI now offers "generate now, review later". Fill in the pattern. We're cooked and it's not due to AI…
Is VibeDebt a term yet?
Why would anyone trust these large contractor companies enough to pay them the huge amounts of money to have juniors learning the ropes on their dime?
"Customers" were the content the juniors were trained on in the same way that scraped internet data is what LLMs are trained on, except Customers were paying for the privilege of being 'scraped'.
Now there are no juniors, just LLMs being asked questions that aren't specific enough, and assuming the answer is one-shot correct.
It saves E&Y lots of money though, and their (confusing) reputation will provide a surprising amount of momentum such that plenty of work will keep rolling in for a few years to come.
This sort of thing is a complete embarrassment to a firm like EY, where people are paying them a lot of money for advice. They’ve basically demonstrated that their market leading research is just someone asking questions to ChatGPT. If you ever needed evidence to not buy “advice” from such outfits, this is exhibit one. Hopefully they at least fired the partner that published this steaming pile of AI slop.
The Big Four have become a shadow of their former selves. They have become so risk averse that their advice is already incredibly generic and non-actionable. I think their audit work is in a downwards spiral. Audit has become so competitive that they are struggling to find ways to make it cheaper. They have become slaves to reducing the hours booked, and the rate of those hours. To do this they substitute less experi…
It's just that people are more aware / less trusting these days.
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> the idea that Amazon would allow human bottlenecks to appear across projects and underlying infrastructure is ridiculous. Why?
Amazon is fairly well known to ruthlessly optimize every process. So if they're having humans proofread what the AI produces, they must have found that to be necessary.