Management doesn’t care. This sort of thing is becoming more common at my workplace too. More outages, more embarrassing bugs, even bugs that leak customer data. The solution is always more AI, and if you’re still shipping bugs and causing outages, it’s because you did’t use the AI correctly. Leadership makes all the right noises about quality and ownership, but when it comes down to it, the incentive structures clearly prioritize shipping things faster, all else be damned.

Sounds like a fast track to sinking their company into the ground

I mean, why do you think people are burning out?

Due to prolonged stress, which lack of control is the main contributor e.g. you have expectations, you cannot control variable x,y,z, which leads to stress, which over long period of causes burn out.

In case it wasn’t obvious, I was being facetious. You can’t just let the AI rip without putting effort into constructing good input and verifying the output and expect anything good to happen, which is what the gp was asking.

There’s no secret into how people are getting “10x”, or at least claiming to, they’re just working more.

If if this person really is a distinguished engineer, then they are part of leadership and it's their responsibility to set realistic expectations. Leadership knows this, they just don't care and won't care until the job market improves.

I agree with you, it’s mostly hype. But it doesn’t really matter whether it’s true or not because the vibes are clearly bad. These execs keep “warning” us about that AI will take all the jobs then keep pouring more money into AI, the press credulously reports it, and people are obviously worried. Most people aren’t digging through economic data themselves to figure out these execs are full of shit.

I’m struggling to see how anything he did is AI at all. Literally everything about his company is outsourced to an army of contracting firms. All this guy did was generate a marketing site that was filled with fraud.

Reads like an extended slop LinkedIn post. The author poses a question with an obvious answer yet answers with the most galaxy brain take possible while dropping in some academic concepts to make themselves sound like a thought leader despite probably only taking an intro class in college 10+ years ago.

Last year Flighty literally saved me from an overnight delay because it notified me the incoming aircraft was still on the ground at the previous airport. I was able to snag the last couple seats on a later scheduled flight which actually departed. My original flight ended up getting canceled.

Thank you! That's the use case and I see the value; I learned to compensate by never taking the "last flight out" if I could avoid it.

We're all trying to find the guy who did this!

Right, there are dozens of open source versions of wikis/task trackers/CRMs/ERPs/whatevers. Just because you can vibecode your way to a bad version of a bunch of SaaS products shouldn't fundamentally change anything. Companies buy SaaS products to make running the thing someone else's problem. It's times like these where I wish we had a functional SEC; I really wonder how much market manipulation is going on.

The timing of the Claude Code guerilla marketing campaign that seems to have started around new years is now making much more sense.

It's wild watching people fall for it

how is this guerilla marketing?