[xantronix]

The wisdom to understand that velocity is not equal to value; and the optimism that this will all end at some point.

[Retric]

Companies ultimately don’t have a choice here.

They can do what works, or they can fail. Large enough companies with enough inertia can do really dumb things for a while, but even giants fall.

[wiether]

I'm confused by your answer because I can't tell which way you're going.

Are you saying companies have to mandate AI everywhere?

Or are you saying the exact opposite, as your second sentence suggests?

I haven't heard of AI mandates in small companies, only in big ones.

[tonyhart7]

or they just need really capable AI that are better than 99% human

[lazide]

That just means he’s not a middle manager or exec, not that he isn’t cashing the check from someone who is clearly a short sighted idiot.

[xantronix]

It wasn't meant to be a literal statement, more just a reflection that the situation is so bleak that I cannot imagine a better future; anybody expressing even a little bit of it seems to me like a somebody who has not been crushed into compliance through force.

Quoting the host of the recurring Quiz Broadcast sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look: "Books mention 'hope'. What was 'hope'?"