[MrMember]

It's a positive for a nameless middle manager somewhere who can show their boss a graph with a line moving to the right and up with a title like "AI Adoption Across Platforms" and hit their bonus target.

[DeepYogurt]

This is 100% the why.

[Uehreka]

Whenever I see this much vehement agreement about something on HN, it sets off serious groupthink alarm bells.

Idk what the answer is, but it is not 100% this. It’s too simple and satisfying of an answer to be true.

[nticompass]

3 Billion Devices run Java, I mean Copilot.

[rolph]

if you work in a restauraunt, and decide salt is cheaper than sugar, and fill the bowls like that, someone will find out, like your manager.

telling your boss we are selling sugar, when its actually salt, is a good recipe for footgunning.

[weikju]

No, the boss is asking for more salt. Employees are then replacing sugar with salt and getting bonuses, no matter what the customer reactions are.

[readthenotes1]

Accountability and responsibility are not so clear and large, insanely profitable, behemoths like Microsoft.

[hiddencost]

You've clearly never worked at a large tech company