by animuchan 4 hours ago
This is probably the most charitable explanation humanly possible.
Surely for this specific example of managerial stupidity it just is, but I mean more generally, it's a beautiful posting.
I aspire to have this much misplaced belief in any humans at all, let alone CEOs.
At my company, this was the explicitly stated and shared goal from management.
"We can't know all the parts of our business that AI can do a good job automating [because it's so new] but we also don't want to be the last to know and outcompeted along the way. Please throw AI at random parts of your job [and we're tracking this] so we can generate feedback from employees on where to invest in additional automation"
My company has since provided a ton of high-value little AI workflows, alongside a handful that didn't pan out. AI-assisted software development is a major change overall, but the general business-process updates from AI are a net-positive to me.