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Couldn't help but chuckle at that bullet point. We should know by now that AI creates lots of cognitive debt and unstable, vibe-coded software, as well as making people stupid. But one thing it absolutely doesn't seem to do is make things more efficient long term.
See we replaced people with costs to run virtual people that would make oracle blush. Are the virtual people any good? Goodness no.
Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That's progress, right? Right?
Through great effort we have molded this once analog curiosity into a digital ouroboros... to very nearly duplicate Kyle from accounting!
... Admittedly this would be the Kyle following the unfortunate kick to the head from that clydesdale.
Nevermind that! We've gone ahead and laid off the rest off accounting and now Kyle² is wielding immesurable power to... Oh. Oh dear.
The problem here is “expected.” Maybe they’re right and AI will do what they say…well, show us the receipts first then before you ruin thousands of people’s lives?