Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

Post by jm4 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC

asveikau wrote: post #290

jm4 wrote: post #283

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Not getting fired is not the same as isolation from consequences. People who make rational decisions and achieve results get opportunities to make more impactful decisions. People who don't get results don't get more opportunities - or maybe find themselves in a situation where the scope of their decisions (and blast radius) is limited. Firing is for misconduct or when someone has no value to offer. It's more of a sp…

> People who don't get results don't get more opportunities This shows to me that you have a lot of faith in these companies that I can't share based on my own experiences. My experience is more like: the defining characteristics of what gets you more opportunities is personal attachment to the boss. They like you? You get more. The whole performance review culture, as an example, is based around phony justifications…

Post by bluefirebrand » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 7:13 PM UTC

Legend2440 wrote: post #35

Sanzig wrote: post #27

Setting aside how shortsighted it is to fire your employees to replace them with AI, Ford also screwed up by firing the wrong employees. LLMs work best in the hands of experienced senior engineers who can work at a high level of abstraction because they already understand all the pieces underneath. In a sense, using an LLM agent is like providing instructions to a very smart, very quick junior who despite being brill…

Who says Ford fired any employees? The article doesn't.

Post by SwtCyber » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 7:17 PM UTC

Sanzig wrote: post #27

Setting aside how shortsighted it is to fire your employees to replace them with AI, Ford also screwed up by firing the wrong employees. LLMs work best in the hands of experienced senior engineers who can work at a high level of abstraction because they already understand all the pieces underneath. In a sense, using an LLM agent is like providing instructions to a very smart, very quick junior who despite being brill…

Post by reactordev » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

K0balt wrote: post #254

ufmace wrote: post #248

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I tend to feel like, I start out with a rough idea of a program I want to write in my head. I find it easier to just write the code directly than to write a document with sufficient detail about how I want it to work for an LLM to actually write the right code, then have the LLM write the code. And the resulting documentation is about as likely to be useless or a burden as it is to be helpful in the future.

You don’t write the doc. You talk to the LLM about the idea and the anchor points, and have it write the doc.

Post by warumdarum » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

mathattack wrote: post #271

exabrial wrote: post #94

For those of us who lived through the "Offshoring" Craze of the mid-2000s, this has the exact same arc. Corp CEOs / CFOs golf buddies coouldn't stop yapping about how much they saved paying people less by offshoring. So step 1, they fire a bunch of people and send work overseas, driving up their financial metrics for 5-6 quarters until their staff and their organization finally break at stage 2. Turns out cultural an…

You’ve hit on a big reason - short term gains. The partners at Accenture, Infosys and the rest circle the execs at old industry companies. The companies start performing worse, though nothing some accounting gimmicks can’t cover. Then they have a very bad quarter, enough that it will ruin their fiscal year. Fingers start pointing, and talk turns to “belt tightening” and “turning fixed costs to variable.” All of a sud…