Fools. You’re only supposed to fire enough that the leftovers hustle harder at the expense of their physical and mental well-being, not enough to noticeably affect the profit.
Like the post says, their mistake was thinking ai worked, when really it’s true purpose is giving an excuse to get fewer employees to work harder.
Surely this time companies will learn from this, right?
…Right?
I recently attended a presentation by NVIDIA at my company, where a summary slide had statements so outlandish, that I had to look around in disbelief."A. The statements had a trailing asterisk, but no actual clarifying text. I joked that it was for “NVIDIA is not responsible for any business decisions made based on these purely fictive statements” with a font size of 1 slightly different color than the background.
No wonder their trucks and SUVs look like slop.
Imagine all the recalls they didn’t do because being sued and settling costs less
That’s not actually how recalls (usually) work. Companies don’t unilaterally decide when a recall happens or not.
Right but OP watched Fight Club.
That depends on how many political “contributions” the company has made.
If Monsanto can hide the fact that they paid off scientists to say Glyphosate is safe for 30 years when they knew it caused cancer, I don’t know whether I can trust that. I’m sure they have ways to hide recalls to deny, delay, and defend the process…
🤣 How Ford Is Embracing AI To Drive Innovation In The Automotive Industry
Nov 23, 2025, 04:58pm EST
Today, Ford is betting on the next stage of technology innovation–AI. With annual revenues of $185 billion, Ford ranks 19 on the Fortune 1000, and markets automobiles and commercial vehicles across the globe. So, how does a company that pioneered an earlier era of innovation adopt the next wave, manifested by artificial intelligence (AI), to optimize its business operations for the next generation of customers?
It’s funny. I was on the Detroit factory tour in August, and it was all about the human factor andnhow great itnisntonhabe human expertise and skill behind Every FORD Truck.
Interesting. The PR team seemed to have got it at the local level. Maybe the AI bit from the article I posted was trying to reach the money people. I’m guessing the money people don’t buy Fords as a rule.
Well the article’s from November, and they probably didn’t touch the tour script before then. It’s just funny how in a few months things have gone so tits-up.
Could tell this was forbes just from the hogwash in that excerpt.
The people responsible for this obviously stupid mistake were replaced, right? Right?
Yes, ironically with AI
Crazy how these tweets/notes dont have CEO being held responsible !? Like no names nothing. But have one good quarter and they are in FORBES magazine COVER
Did they include “do not hallucinate” in the prompt? Didnt think so. Classic mistake
“Write program worth 1 million dollars. Do not hallucinate. No mistakes. Good code only. Make secure. No vulnerabilities. Follow all standards. No spaghetti code. No anti-patterns. No deprecated dependencies. Runs fast, and cheap, and completely functionally. Does what it is supposed to. Minimize token use.”
Perfect. Iron-clad. Let the profits commence.
Got it, this program was worth one million dollars before uber was invented.
This is like not even a parody of what they think lol. It’s so ridiculous.
Unbelievably, this is real advice I’ve heard from corporate AI experts.
I went to a conference a few months ago and the very first speaker gave the following advice with a straight face to a room full of professional software engineers: “Your biggest limitation on your productivity is going to be token management, so just buy as many tokens as you can so you won’t even have to think about it.” And that guy, supposedly, didn’t work for OpenAI or Anthropic.
I kind of hope he’s at least getting kickbacks because I would rather he be a secret corporate AI shill than just a submissive gimp for dommy mommy AI industry attempting to recruit more paypigs to her flock. At least that would have more dignity.
i always wondered what they are peddling at these AI conferences, we have them almost daily here in the west. im not really surprised they have a hired “spokesman” to do it, are the engineers buying into this? or they know full well the AI isnt shit?
Well, the unfortunate truth is AI is an extremely useful tool for software engineering. I’ve gotten to where I use it most days and it has made some tasks waaaay easier and faster.
But it’s not a silver bullet that solves all your problems and replaces an engineer that understands their projects, business needs, context, inter-team dependencies and agreements, risk mitigation, etc. And we also understand that it will never be cheaper than it is right now and getting too dependent on a tool that may be prohibitively expensive in the future is unwise.
If I were an independent contractor, paid by the job, building a bespoke self contained application for someone where they give me all the context I need for it, I’d 100% be using AI to do the majority of the coding and testing. Get the job done fast and move on. But throwing all of your money at it like it will solve all your problems is just moronic, particularly when you work at an enterprise scale where literally no individual person can give the AI the full context of all our systems.
It is included in the guardrails for my orgs copilot integration. Surprisingly, it still hallucinates.
Surprisingly
“I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Obviously the solution is to tell it to not hallucinate that it isnt hallucinating
it will hallucinate that its not hallucinating.
"Oh, thanks for pointing that out, I 100% hallucinated those connections this last time. Let’s go over what’s real:
- real
- real
- real
- hallucinated
- real"
If you ask chatgpt for 100 5 letter words around a single topic, instead of saying it can’t give you 100 words it will just start adding 6 letter words and then start cutting off a letter.
It’s astounding how much faith people put in this software
Well that’s just ridic
That movie was ridic too
the AI would Hallucinate the part where “it doesnt hallucinate”
see my other comment.
ChatGPT is AWESOME at averaging and producing the average of things that have been done before and rigorously documented online already.
Surely a system designed to regurgitate existing data with some randomization will come up with new solutions for novel problems not in their data set!
I mean, it will spit out something because it is designed to output something. Surely it will all work out!
“New” is doing all the heavy lifting there.
New as in didn’t exist before? Yes. For instance a model of ford that looks like a Toyota Yaris, is new.
New as in, has characteristics that don’t appear in the training data… Far less likely.
Something something monkeys typewriters shakespeare
Language models don’t know how to engineer trucks? Who knew?!
Hope they all got nice pay raises for the hassle.
Philosophical question… do you apply for one of those positions? I mean, on the one hand, they got bit hard so maybe they’ll hold off on doing something like this again for a while, they’re desperate so they’ll likely make you jump through fewer hoops to hire and they’ll appreciate your contributions more, and you’d be in a better position to negotiates good pay. On the other hand, their c-suite are clearly morons, they clearly don’t understand how software works, they’re probably gonna over-hire to correct their mistakes and then cull the employee population later, and the culture is probably going to be shit between the jaded senior staff and the influx of newbies.
C suites are usually headhunted. So if you already have a company under your belt at say $xB, theyll consider you for a company of $nxB. Domain expertise matters surprisingly little in the process. Anecdote and know a few.
at least they’re getting paid obscene amount of money to make these moronic decisions, at least there’s that
I mean, Ford was so low quality, how can it get worse?
And then it got worse.
It can always get worse. Rock Bottom is a mostly fictional narrative promoted by Christian Ex-alcoholics.
Still shows you how eager they are to ruin our livelihoods as soon as possible. I hate how complacent we are to this threat
