Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources.
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This guy just gives off never nude vibes
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Yup. If 1% of all requests result in failures and even cause damages, you‘ll quickly lose 99% of your customers.
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This guy just gives off never nude vibes
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Employees should start setting up an AI to prove it can do Tobi Lutke's extremely difficult job of making a small number of important decisions every once in a while.
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“Stagnation is almost certain, and stagnation is slow-motion failure.”
This has some strong Ricky Bobby vibes, "If you ain't first, you're last." I never have understood how companies are supposed to have unlimited growth. At some point when every human on earth that can use their service/product is already doing so, where else is there to go? Isn't stagnation being almost certain just a reality of a finite world?
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Yes. No over worked human would ever lose their crap and tell someone to go kill themselves.
What would happen to such a human? Do you suppose that we would try to give them every job on the planet? Or would they just get fired?
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“Stagnation is almost certain, and stagnation is slow-motion failure.”
This has some strong Ricky Bobby vibes, "If you ain't first, you're last." I never have understood how companies are supposed to have unlimited growth. At some point when every human on earth that can use their service/product is already doing so, where else is there to go? Isn't stagnation being almost certain just a reality of a finite world?
At some point when every human on earth that can use their service/product is already doing so, where else is there to go?
Ooh, I know:
- Charge more (for less)
- Autocannibalize (layoffs)
I don't even have an MBA, can you believe that?
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“Stagnation is almost certain, and stagnation is slow-motion failure.”
This has some strong Ricky Bobby vibes, "If you ain't first, you're last." I never have understood how companies are supposed to have unlimited growth. At some point when every human on earth that can use their service/product is already doing so, where else is there to go? Isn't stagnation being almost certain just a reality of a finite world?
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Should ask the AI model if a CEO is required
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What error rate do you think humans have? Because it sure as hell ain't as low as 1%.
But yeah, it is like the other person said: This gets rid of most employees but still leaves managers. And a manager dealing with an idiot who went off script versus an AI who hallucinated something is the same problem. If it is small? Just leave it. If it is big? Cancel the order.
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A lot was invested on the promise of AI, only to discover that it's not capable of becoming this "super intelligence" people were banking on.
They were going for "super intelligence" and instead they got Cliff Clavin from Cheers.
"It’s a little-known fact that the tan became popular in what is known as the Bronze Age."
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Everyone stop doing your jobs
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should just be a matter of saying “AI can’t do this job because it can’t properly do any job”. could even make that your email signature.
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Let's all just make new companies that unionized scooped stoves bring all our coworkers.
In this example that CEO isn't needed
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I develop AI agents rn and have yet to see one that can perform a real task unsupervised on their own. It's not what agents are made for at all - they're only capable of being an assistant or annotate, summarize data etc.
So his take on ai agents doing work is pretty dumb for the time being.
Though AI tool use proficiency test is very much unavoidable, I don't see any software company not using AI assistants so anyone who doesn't will simply not get hired. Its like coding in notepad - yeah you can do it but its not a signal you want to send to your team cause you'd look stupid.
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Which humans can be far better than in terms of just directly following the assigned task but does not factor in how people can adapt and problem solve.
How's that annoying meme go? Tell me that you've never been a middle manager without telling me that you've never been a middle manager?
You can keep pulling numbers out of your bum to argue that AI is worse. That just creates a simple bar to follow because... most workers REALLY are incompetent (now, how much of that has to do with being overworked and underpaid during late stage capitalism is a related discussion...). So all "AI Companies" have to do is beat ridiculously low metrics.
Or we can acknowledge the real problem. "AI" is already a "better worker" than the vast majority of entry level positions (and that includes title inflation). We can either choose not to use it (fat chance) or we can acknowledge that we are looking at a fundamental shift in what employment is. And we can also realize that not hiring and training those entry level goobers is how you never have anyone who can actually "manage" the AI workers.
how you never have anyone who can actually “manage” the AI workers.
You just use other AI to manage those worker AI. Experiments do show that having different instances of AI/LLM, each with an assigned role like manager, designer, coding or quality checks, perform pretty good working together. But that was with small stuff. I haven't seen anyone wiling to test with complex products.
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what laptop? ^* is what I said
Still have mine gathering dust when one american startup laid me off 1 day before I had to be legally granted my equity shares and they had the audacity to ask me to arrange the return lmao
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Ah yes more paperwork is certainly going to make your employees more productive. Why don't you also require them to prototype if kicking a rock against the wall 10 times does the job, instead of actually letting them do the job?
