- jobbies@lemmy.zipEnglish39 minutes
These stupid companies are getting everything they deserve and I’m loving it.
- chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish1 minute
Using an LLM to parse stuff is like using a rocket launcher to kill an ant.
You can accomplish the same thing using a million times fewer resources with a purpose-built program.
- Bakkoda@lemmy.worldEnglish11 minutes
I showed multiple morons how to doctor up their safety photos using copilot in hours that it cost the company i contract for insane money. I dunno if it she’s but I’m doing my part?
2 hoursYou know, if we were taught to use something like LaTeX, this wouldn’t be an issue because of BEAMER
- yetAnotherUser@lemmy.caEnglish16 minutes
That wouldn’t fix the issue though. The problem seems to be that most people only put out a PDF file when sharing slides, and never end up sharing the source file (the
.pptxor.texfile).
And Accenture itself reportedly started requiring senior staff to start using AI or risk losing out on promotions.
Every time companies urge employees to use AI and then regret the cost. The fuck is wrong with people? Why are they pushing it so hard? Does Sam give them hand jobs if they use the most?
I don’t understand this need to pressure staff into using something and threatening punishment if not. Are they worried that their employees are not efficient enough? Pay them the token prices on top of their salary and see how stuff changes.
Fuck Accenture, they just abuse low level analysts to make profit.
- 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 hour
The fuck is wrong with people?
That’s the corporate hive mind, all afraid of missing out of a great productivity tool. And they think that because media these days just copies what the richest people say and hype it up because the rich these days only speak to yes-men.
and then regret the cost
Reality doesn’t need to obey yes-men.
This is actually very common across businesses. My company actually has our bonuses tied to AI adoption, so we have dashboards showing people’s AI usage. Other major companies have done the same, which lead to the practice of “token maxxing” where people were using AI to make more AI calls to boost their numbers up.
- SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish3 hours
This dumb bubble can’t pop soon enough and wipe away most of the US economy while doing so.
- GalacticRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
True except the 80% of people who will suffer further because of it, and the 20% that will gleefully be laughing to the bank and buy up everything at a discounted price. Few of us should be cheering for the failure or success of AI.
- EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides
Sounds the people they hired to do the shit work don’t actually want to do that type of work. I, for one, am shocked. Shocked I tell you!
The problem seems to be that it takes competent employees to get anything useful out of an LLM in the first place. However, it is these very employees whom the greedy CEOs want to replace. So the result is that an incredible amount of money is being spent on absolutely nothing.
The logical conclusion, then, should be that it would make more sense to replace these useless CEOs with AI. Since they’re just making idiotic decisions for a lot of money anyway, there could be lots of savings.
Unfortunately, however, that will never happen, because contrary to all that talk of KPIs and such, what really matters in the upper echelons of management is never efficiency, but rather ruthlessness and brown-nosing.
- glarf@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
I recently learned of a term “reverse centaur” and found the ideas in that article were very entertaining as a way to explain why CEOs are obsessed with LLMs. The author of the book being interviewed has a few hot takes that I think are pretty relevant here too. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/
Indeed!
“The bubble doesn’t want cheap useful things,” Doctorow said. “It wants expensive ‘disruptive’ things: big foundational models that lose billions of dollars every year. When the AI investment mania halts, most of the models are going to disappear, because it just won’t be economical to keep the data centers running. The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100 billion IOU. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.”
I think that pretty much sums it up.
- Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 hour
converting pdfs to presentation
I don’t get this, We’ve had OCR for a while. All around San Francisco Ive been seeing ads for “llamaparse” with the tagline “we parse pdfs”, like is that all you do? How do you afford this marketing budget?
- 2 hours
PDFs are so shitty to work with, it’s like translating them, it’s impossible without using a tool like Google translate.
I fucking hate PDFs as much as I hate Adobe.
I HATE PDFS TOO. I hate them! 99.999% of the time I’m given a PDF file it would be more useful as an HTML file.
- 2 hours
Various designing firms.
After the bubble bursts, law firms, because everyone starts suing everyone to get back money they didn’t necessarily have, but still spent, because somebody will soon sue them.
AI is about to join the list of “stupid technologies that people should really wait and see before investing on”, which includes
- 3D TVs - complete dud
- Blockchain - useless for real world problems already solved by typical computing
- Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around
- Folding screen phones - overpriced junk
- Fully autonomous self driving cars - “Just around the corner” for the past 10 years
- zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish2 hours
Some of these turned out to be useless, some just haven’t been adequately delivered yet.
In 2040 folding phones and autonomous cars might be great, but blockchain will still be a solution in search of a problem.
Folding Phones Sales Continue To Increase since 2019, showing people seem to like them
- glarf@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Two time buyer, can confirm. They’re legitimately useful and durable enough for me.
- morto@piefed.socialEnglish1 hour
Two time buyer as in you liked it so much and bought another, or two time buyer as in the first is already inoperative and got another?
- glarf@lemmy.worldEnglish22 minutes
My fold4 lasted 3 years, and still works. I’ll concede it was only able to unfold to about 85% open at the end when I decided to upgrade. I was happy to upgrade to the fold 7 which has a redesigned hinge and better dust protection. I acknowledged the risk of mechanical failure as a possibility compared to a slab phone and after using it for years I decided I was still very impressed with the flexibility of having a tablet in my pocket. The fact that my 7th generation is significantly thinner and has a 200MP camera compared to the 4th is what sealed the deal.
It’s not perfect for everyone, but I wouldn’t go back to using a slab, there’s too much functionality I’d be pissed giving up.
Granted, I tend to upgrade my phone every 2 years or so anyway.
- Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
I don’t think they are for me but I honestly would not include them in that list above. First of all, there is no investment bubble around them and secondly some people seem to like them and are ready to pay for them. They also do have legitimate benefits (but also downsides)
- Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Yeah I didn’t dislike the 3d monitors/tvs they just had too many caveats at the time and VR kind of ate its lunch.
- Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
3D stuff has the fundamental issue that VR and 3D views are just incredibly straining on the human user. Folding phones have no such issue and their durability is also good enough to be competitive (yet clearly worse than regular smart phones). They are really not comparable to 3D monitors and VR.
- 3 hours
This could also be explained by the entire rest of the market being different flavors of the exact same thing. A little over a decade ago, we actually had choices in what type of phone we wanted. Now, if you want anything other than an identical slab, foldables are your only choice.
- yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Disco Stu says disco record sales have trended upwards for the entire decade of 1970’s. If this trend continues… eyyyyyyyyy!
Don’t forget NFTs… though I guess that can fall under blockchain.
- 5 hours
yeah but NFTs were so stupid that they deserve their own dishonorable mention here.
- brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 hours
NFTs are so fucking stupid the satirical yearly award for this shit should probably be the NonFungible Trophy cus it’s a literal fucking physical trophy.
- 5 hours
Cold fusion. Green hydrogen. Hyper loop. Just off the top of my head.
- FirmDistribution@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Hyper Loop was an insane idea (in a bad way).
Motherfucker wanted to invent subway, but for cars, making cities even more dependent of cars.
- flyingSock@feddit.orgEnglish5 hours
hyperloop was very low air pressure subway tubes for high speed trains. Works for research tesring tracks impractical to infeasible for real world applications. But it apparently what killed high speed rail in california (because wait this will be better)
The cars in tubes thing was a seperate stupid idea.
- officermike@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
I don’t know that he really wanted to fully execute on Hyperloop so much as build hype (and Tesla stock price) around the idea while sabotaging funding for California’s high speed rail project. But yes, end goal to keep people buying his cars.
- encelado748@feddit.orgEnglish5 hours
Cold fusion is a scam, not a bad idea. There is no scientific basis for that. Is as bad as “infinite energy engine”.
- encelado748@feddit.orgEnglish4 hours
Green hydrogen is water electrolysis with solar power, not scam, it works, it is just a question of making it economically viable. Hyperloop is just stupid, but within the realm of possible. Cold fusion is the only scam here.
- 2 hours
The scam isn’t always “fake tech” so much as “distracting from better alternatives for monetary reasons”. Even if hyperloop worked perfectly, they’re not going to build it, because not building high speed rail was always the point.
- encelado748@feddit.orgEnglish2 hours
Your definition of “scam” is not what other human being use. Causes unnecessary back and forth.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around
This one I slightly disagree with. I got my headset on a black friday and it was super cheap, but VR documentaries are friggin’ amazing and I hope museums will invest heavily in it in the coming years.
Fully autonomous self driving cars - “Just around the corner” for the past 10 years
Definitely. Makes me feel good for people who make their living driving trucks.
- Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
The metaverse isn’t VR in general, it was meant to be a virtual space in VR where users could be advertised to and buy/rent things and space like in a physical city.
It failed because those were the intended starting points, and it didn’t solve any problem other than a shitty attempt at a “I want to live in a ready player one world” and didn’t have any compelling reasons to actually use it, let alone use it and pay ridiculous amounts to do interesting things there. They always just wanted to be the middlemen, offering space for others to pay for and do something interesting in. The most interesting thing they came up with is having a meeting with avatars instead of faces on a screen (and most people don’t even want to turn on their video and just do a voice conversation instead).
- Hnery@feddit.orgEnglish7 hours
that came after Uber told employees to use AI as much as possible and Uber’s CTO said the company had blown its entire AI budget in four months
- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
Further evidence that most CEO’s and SLT’s are just confident, lucky, and born wealthy; not competent, smarter, or much better than average.
