The C-levels who jumped on the bandwagon are definitely not going to fall on their swords should it go south. They’ll blame the tech, fire some subordinates, suggest their customers for “not understanding it”, and their shareholders will eat it up as long as they get a pound of flesh.
thewebguyd|1 month ago
See Microsoft's recent "We don't understand how you all are not impressed by AI."
In the case of MS, you're right, Satya isn't going to fall on his own sword. They will just continue to bundle and raise prices, make it impossible to buy anything else (because you still need the other tools) and then pitch that to shareholders as success "Look how many people buy Copilot (even though it's forcefully bundled into every offering we sell("
hackable_sand|1 month ago
lp0_on_fire|1 month ago
There’s minimal risk to the decision makers. Meanwhile, every one of us peons is significantly more at risk of losing our jobs whether we could be effectively replaced with these AI tools or not because our own C-level execs decided to drink the snake oil that is the current bubble.