His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was
This is something I don’t see talked about enough. The real reason CEOs and corpos are so blindly committed to making this happen is because they think the end result will be a fully automated workforce that will be far cheaper and 100% under their control.
‘100% under their control’ would quickly show how useless CEOs are at running their business. Employees with experience in their specific areas tend to stop CEO’s more egregious decision making.
This is something I don’t see talked about enough. The real reason CEOs and corpos are so blindly committed to making this happen is because they think the end result will be a fully automated workforce that will be far cheaper and 100% under their control.
‘100% under their control’ would quickly show how useless CEOs are at running their business. Employees with experience in their specific areas tend to stop CEO’s more egregious decision making.
shooting down bosses stupid ideas is #1 productivity tip for professionals (like most people on lemmy are)
I don’t think that was ever any secret.