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Re: AI-First Company Memos

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Post by whiplash451 »

It's so sad to see some of these companies completely fail their AI-first communication [1], when they would just get so much from "We think AI can transform the way we work. We're giving you access to all these tools, please tell us what works and what doesn't". And that would be it.

[1] there was a remote universe where I could see myself working for Shopify, now that company is sitting somewhere between Wipro and Accenture in my ranking.

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Post by jahnu »

If the person who wrote this is reading, many of us block tracking in our browsers and all we see for each of those X embeds is

"X trackers and content blocked

Your Firefox settings blocked this content from tracking you across sites or being used for ads."

Screenshots don't track me so they would be ok.

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Post by debo_ »

whiplash451 wrote: post #3

It's so sad to see some of these companies completely fail their AI-first communication [1], when they would just get so much from "We think AI can transform the way we work. We're giving you access to all these tools, please tell us what works and what doesn't". And that would be it. [1] there was a remote universe where I could see myself working for Shopify, now that company is sitting somewhere between Wipro and…

Unfortunately at this scale, when you are this soft on the message, everyone ignores it and keeps doing what they were doing before. Carrot and stick are both required for performance management at this scale. You can argue whether the bet is worth it or not, but to even take the bet, you need a lot more than some resources and a "please".

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Post by upupupandaway »

I work for a large tech company, and our CTO has just released a memo with a new rubric for SDEs that includes "AI Fluency". We also have a dashboard with AI Adoption per developer, that is being used to surveil the teams lagging on the topic. All very depressing.

A friend of mine is an engineer of a large pre-IPO startup, and their VP of AI just demanded every single employee needs to create an agent using Claude. There were 9700 created in a month or so. Imagine the amount of tech debt, security holes, and business logic mistakes this orgy of agents will cause and will have to be fixed in the future.

edit: typo

Re: AI-First Company Memos

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Post by ej88 »

seems to be a pattern:

[Company that's getting disrupted by AI: Fiverr, Duolingo]: rush to adopt internal AI to cut costs before they get undercut by competition

[Company that's orthogonal: Box, Ramp, HFT]: build internal tools to boost productivity, maintain 'ai-first' image to keep talent

[Company whose business model is AI]: time to go all in

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Post by palmotea »

> Within weeks, CEOs across industries posted their own versions. The AI-first memo became a genre. Here they all are.

That may be all the publicly-posted ones, but I'm skeptical. They have 11.

There were a lot more internal memos.

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Post by MontyCarloHall »

Whatever happened to "show, don't tell"? Other productivity boosters certainly didn't need such memos; they were naturally adopted because the benefits were unambiguous. There were no "IDE-first company memos" or "software framework-first company memos"; devs organically picked these up because the productivity gains were immediately self-evident.
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