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Can someone make an AI agent to target automating tasks of upper management already so they feel the pain as well? You don’t need to even replace them outright, just make your agent so effective that [big tech company] requires fewer VPs and GMs etc. Modern frontier LLMs are incredibly good at all types of knowledge work - this should be possible with enough elbow grease
Severance is a truly amazing tv show
From the first lines I’ve thought the post was set in the series (probably because of the name Mark), but apparently there’s no connection here. (Though thinking about it... severed people do play a similar role in Severance as LLMs do in our world, don’t they?)
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What?
Can someone make an AI agent to target automating tasks of upper management already so they feel the pain as well? You don’t need to even replace them outright, just make your agent so effective that [big tech company] requires fewer VPs and GMs etc. Modern frontier LLMs are incredibly good at all types of knowledge work - this should be possible with enough elbow grease
I feel like thats impossible - in the end the reason we have those useless roles is to have someone to shift the blame to
I've been in a few meetings like this. In all cases it was because they, as business leaders, were not able to run a profitable company. That's the most irritating part.
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I feel like thats impossible - in the end the reason we have those useless roles is to have someone to shift the blame to
Blaming an AI model that can't even remember what it did is even easier than blaming a person.
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From the first lines I’ve thought the post was set in the series (probably because of the name Mark), but apparently there’s no connection here. (Though thinking about it... severed people do play a similar role in Severance as LLMs do in our world, don’t they?)
> Though thinking about it... severed people do play a similar role in Severance as LLMs do in our world, don’t they? … What?
In reality, we’re tasking the LLMs with dull work, and use their output for our benefit. It’s a stretch, yeah.
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From the first lines I’ve thought the post was set in the series (probably because of the name Mark), but apparently there’s no connection here. (Though thinking about it... severed people do play a similar role in Severance as LLMs do in our world, don’t they?)
I discovered the show recently and thought that was a part of the point, but apparently the show's development long predates LLMs!
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Blaming an AI model that can't even remember what it did is even easier than blaming a person.
Computers and AIs can't be held responsible.
There will just be like 75% fewer of those individuals because they all can do so much more per head
I know this is a joke, but this is why my coworkers and I were muted during the meeting we were laid off. I received a meeting invite the night before for 9am with two HR people and some middle manager above me that I never met. It was obvious what the meeting was going to be.
Can someone make an AI agent to target automating tasks of upper management already so they feel the pain as well? You don’t need to even replace them outright, just make your agent so effective that [big tech company] requires fewer VPs and GMs etc. Modern frontier LLMs are incredibly good at all types of knowledge work - this should be possible with enough elbow grease
I feel like thats impossible - in the end the reason we have those useless roles is to have someone to shift the blame to