Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

  • Kissaki@feddit.org
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    6 hours ago

    It only makes sense if

    • you want to drive up adoption because
      • you’re confident in usefulness already
      • want to find out about usefulness and need the userbase and usage for it
    • you have ulterior motives to push for AI adoption

    I can imagine leadership - disconnected from real work and any practical AI use experience - being misinformed and misguided into believing marketing and hype-cycle about gains. It also doesn’t seem implausible that leadership wants to drive up adoption to quickly gain feedback and results about usefulness and gains/loss.

    In good faith, it requires a certain mindset (no care about the waste or potential loss or risk) and distance from practice. Not implausible, though, in my eyes.

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      3 hours ago

      personally oversaw a 300% increase in lines of code committed. 40% reduction in delays and 60% reduction in feature implementation design cycles. As a result, increased company revenue by 30%

      This is all the explanation you need on why they’re doing this bone headed shit. It’s not their problem in a few quarters when they jump ship after padding their resume on the company’s dime.