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by michaelmrose 988 days ago
This may be the single most dysfunctional idea ever posted to this site. Shall we go over it point by point?

> Morning stand up meetings:

Meetings are synchronous time for human beings to interact with each other because we don't know what they are going to share. Replicating this with a machine that is going to asynchronously process all inputs including direct input on your tickets and direct work makes absolutely no sense.

> analyzing voice tones for stress or uncertainty

This is a creepy way to manage as a person. Applied by a machine it is HAL9000 levels of creepy it just trains people to talk like robots to the robot so that HAL doesn't bother or use it as a data point counting towards them getting later terminated.

> Conflict Resolution: Using its vast knowledge base and understanding of human psychology...

Humans are incredibly bad at psychology and its literally mostly snake oil and impossible to replicate nonsense.

> Training & Upgradation: EMAI monitors the latest tech trends. If a new tool or technology emerges in the market, it identifies which team members would benefit most from training and automatically schedules online courses or tutorials for them.

In what universe would this result in a better result than just asking people what they would like to learn

> End-of-Day Reports: Every team member receives a personalized report detailing their accomplishments, areas of improvement, and resources for further learning. These reports aren't just data-driven and include motivational feedback designed to boost morale and foster continuous learning.

Motivation is motivational because it demonstrates that your work is important enough that manager bob took the time out of his schedule to praise it particularly. Automating it and having a computer do it makes it worse than useless. It's telling your people that they are so worthless that having a fake robot generate fake praise is all they are worth. It's like taking the much memed pizza party to "boost moral" and taking it to the next level by delivering pictures of pizzas instead of pies.

> EMAI also manages to keep stakeholders informed, and it can negotiate with them to find the best solution given their inputs and the business context.

If your interests are represented by a URL which you can babble at chatGPT you aren't a stakeholder.