our workplace LLM mass delusion 21 ▲ ava's blog 59 days ago · 8 min read1652 words · Culture · hide · 1 comments I can't help but wonder whether we will look back on this AI hype in the workplace with confusion and embarrassment. If we indeed progress into a future where the bubble will burst, models will further close up, become too expensive for the average user, enshittified, or really specialized for specific fields and most promises end up not fulfilled, how will employers everywhere play this off? How will employees recover from witnessing this cultish environment suddenly dropping off as if nothing happened? My employer, for example, struggles with funding. Open positions are not to be filled and will just fall away; employee bonuses for great work have been cancelled 2 years ago due to the tense financial situation; necessities fell away with a message to just "find a way to deal with it". Several departments are completely overworked with no help in sight, and are just asked to cut corners. Important licenses and databases are just dropped to save money. This is the backdrop to our AI… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Khaelenmore Thaal @khaelenmore@mastodon.social 52 days ago [-] It's hard to overstate how true this is. I see people around me going crazy around LLMs as well. At first this was fun, then irritating and now it's frightening. I would not really care if it was just experiments or new projects, but it's deeply concerning that Linux kernel is now effectively vibe-coded, along with rsync and who knows how many other critical tools. I guess the next few years will be extremely funny, and then those who survive will have to clean up the mess.
