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GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Re: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Post by drivebyhooting »

derbOac wrote: post #50
scorpioxy wrote: post #4

> agent development, model engineering, AI-native workflows -- point directly at where large-enterprise demand is heading. I don't understand these words. Does "AI-native workflow" mean vibe coding? I am now seeing a lot of roles asking for "AI-enabled engineers". And I am not sure what that means either. I am sort of afraid to ask because the answer will probably confuse me even more. Maybe it's my understanding of…

FWIW, I interpreted the article as saying they're not looking for vibe coding, but AI model development per se: "...In practical terms, GM is looking for people who know how to build with AI from the ground up — designing the systems, training the models, and engineering the pipelines — not just use AI as a productivity tool."

I can guarantee you GM is not training any of their own models.

Re: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Post by analogpixel »

cosmotic wrote: post #3

They couldn't be bothered to train their staff?

A lot of people are un-trainable. I've worked with people who got angry when the Instructor showed up and the instructor wouldn't just give them the completed exercises, while most of the other people just sat on their laptops checking emails ignore the training all together. I've worked with people that want training on how to use Claude because they can't figure out "just type what you want in the box, and it does it for you." I've worked with people who were amazed when I googled for answers and were like "I should do that to!" (but didn't)

People will demand training, ignore it, and continue to be a drain on the company. There will be those people out there that have one very very very specific skill and that's all they want to do; "I remove people from Active directory that have names that start with A,B or C" or "I run this Ansible Playbook someone else wrote, and that's my entire job."

Re: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Post by drivebyhooting »

cyberax wrote: post #26

Well, the US auto execs visited China and realized that their days are numbered. So why not extract as much profit as possible? Firing people with institutional knowledge? So what? It's going to improve profits short-term.

Why can’t US auto makers automate like China did?

Re: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Post by lowmagnet »

pixl97 wrote: post #41
WarmWash wrote: post #29

Probably should just replace their software engineers too. I don't mean to throw shade, but automotive software is so bad I'd bet my life that Claude could do better. Nevermind that the update cycle seems to be 6-10 months for changes like "You can now reset your radio presets directly from the radio settings menu", while bugs like temperature control resetting to max cool every start-up never get fixed.

US car software, ya, I've never seen such trash in my life. This said I don't really have any complaints about my Hyundai software. It works, doesn't crash, and does what I want it too.

we have a 2017 and 2020 ioniq hybrid and the android auto has been flawless since we got them. except for updates from google on the phone temporarily breaking things, that is.

Re: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Post by dghlsakjg »

pixl97 wrote: post #41
WarmWash wrote: post #29

Probably should just replace their software engineers too. I don't mean to throw shade, but automotive software is so bad I'd bet my life that Claude could do better. Nevermind that the update cycle seems to be 6-10 months for changes like "You can now reset your radio presets directly from the radio settings menu", while bugs like temperature control resetting to max cool every start-up never get fixed.

US car software, ya, I've never seen such trash in my life. This said I don't really have any complaints about my Hyundai software. It works, doesn't crash, and does what I want it too.

My - admittedly 8 year old - Mitsubishi has atrocious UX. State resets itself at odd times (cruise control disables EV mode, and resets regenerative braking settings, eg.), preferences are forgotten, if I want to listen to the radio I have to cycle through AM before FM every time, the touchscreen is slow to respond, the WiFi password for connecting to the app can only be gotten from a dealer, buttons do different things depending on context, etc.

CarPlay works great though.

It’s not just American cars

Re: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Post by rdevilla »

drivebyhooting wrote: post #65
cyberax wrote: post #26

Well, the US auto execs visited China and realized that their days are numbered. So why not extract as much profit as possible? Firing people with institutional knowledge? So what? It's going to improve profits short-term.

Why can’t US auto makers automate like China did?

Isn't it obvious? They aren't using AI to automate their business. That's why GM is doing this.

Re: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

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Post by naruhodo »

porphyra wrote: post #21

AI is a godsend for automotive coding. It's really annoying how at some ASIL levels you need 100% code coverage of unit tests. With AI, all you have to do is to get your agent to generate the tests! Likewise with all the MISRA C requirements. Need your cyclomatic complexity to be less than 10? It's just one prompt away! Now your spaghetti code can easily satisfy the safety requirements with much less effort.

Irony detected, but it's 2026, so nobody can be sure.
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