'ai Is Tearing Companies Apart': CEO Slams Fortune 500 Leaders Mismanaging Tech
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A CEO criticizes Fortune 500 leaders for mismanaging AI technology, sparking limited discussion on the Hacker News community about the challenges of AI adoption in large corporations.
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Step 1: Take a machete and tear it yourself.
Step 2: Pretend nothing is being teared apart.
Step 3: Go megalomaniacal.
Sounds very solid. /s
> "This is not like giving accountants calculators or bankers Excel or designers Photoshop."
Wait, it's not? Weird. It seems to be advertised exactly like it is. /s
> "your humans are liberated to do what they're amazing at: judgment, strategy, creativity"
Replace "endless delegating meetings" for "too many hands at the helm", won't work.
You can't just let people freestyle without guiding them (instead of ordering them, which is different). It's desperate wishful thinking.
There are large, mostly flat structures of highly skilled individual workers. Such as the free software movement.
There's a lot to learn from these kinds of structures. And yes, your product will become a "Linux that has no standard GUI implementation", that's what happens. But look how it goes, it's thriving.