A.I. - Human Job Replacement

[Astronuc]

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing​

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/mit-report-95-generative-ai-105412686.html

Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line.

The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.

Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. The research—based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments—paints a clear divide between success stories and stalled projects.

This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again​

https://fortune.com/2025/08/17/ceo-laid-off-80-percent-workforce-ai-sabotage/

Eric Vaughan, CEO of enterprise-software powerhouse IgniteTech, is unwavering as he reflects on the most radical decision of his decades-long career. In early 2023, convinced that generative AI was an “existential” transformation, Vaughan looked at his team and saw a workforce not fully on board. His ultimate response: He ripped the company down to the studs, replacing nearly 80% of staff within a year, according to headcount figures reviewed by Fortune.

 

[sbrothy]

Goes to show how out of touch management can be with the actual workings on the "factory floor". As long as modern buzzwords (or "buzz-concepts") are used stocks may go up, but the actual productivity (or in this case the lifes of random people) suffers.

 

[TensorCalculus]

Github: How to Write Unmaintainable Code

Best repo I have ever starred in my life
AI is already replacing some software engineering roles... and to be honest you can't half blame the companies: why pay someone $100k what you could do with just $10 of AI credits? My parents showed me a new AI tool just today. It wrote an entire app, with a fully functioning backend with sign in and auth as well as full functionality for what we wanted the app to do (which, was not simple, and included mucking about with APIs, SQLlite... and more). It designed a beautiful react frontend and coded the entire project, we literally just had to sit there and watch. It cost just over $9 worth of Claude API credits. They said (and they are engineers), that this sort of project... you would have to pay an engineer for at least a month to get it going. We were just giving it a shot for fun but it was crazy.

Oh yeah, and they are also practically mandated to use AI in their jobs by their companies, as engineers. Companies are keen to get people to adopt this stuff.

 

[sbrothy]

[…] There was an early chatbot that was allowed to learn and grow and it quickly learned trolling/hate/racism and incorporated that into its model, and had to be shut down.

[…]

I vividly remember that one! It was ugly and embarrassing, but somehow only surprising to it’s creators.

 

[russ_watters]

I vividly remember that one! It was ugly and embarrassing, but somehow only surprising to it’s creators.

Yeah, it's baffling that they didn't see it coming or even test for it.

 

[Hornbein]

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing​

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/mit-report-95-generative-ai-105412686.html

This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again​

https://fortune.com/2025/08/17/ceo-laid-off-80-percent-workforce-ai-sabotage/

he discovered after training literally thousands of people that “most people hate learning. They’d avoid it if they can.”

I like learning with an exception of most software packages. It can be hard to do the simplest things. Blender (the big animated graphics package) is a nightmare as far as I'm concerned.

 

[sbrothy]

Yeah, it's baffling that they didn't see it coming or even test for it.

Indeed. I suspect that just banning it from the various "chan" sites, "ED" and perhaps "reddit" would have been enough. Maybe allowing it only google as a search engine.

Nah, it's probably pervasive throughout the internet.

 

[Astronuc]

Goodwill CEO says he’s preparing for an influx of jobless Gen Zers because of AI—and warns, a youth unemployment crisis is already happening

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/goodwill-ceo-says-preparing-influx-090000273.html

Tech leaders have been quick to squash claims that their AI firms could one day cause significant unemployment. But Goodwill’s CEO Steve Preston says it’s already happening.

The charity, which has over 650 job centers, saw over 2 million people use its employment services last year—and it’s getting ready for even more.

“We are preparing for a flux of unemployed young people—as well as other people—from AI,” the CEO exclusively told Fortune, adding that automation will hit low-wage and entry-level roles the worst.
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