Overall consumer demand is drying up as people are getting squeezed from small wage gains and huge inflation. Low demand for goods and incessant demand for “stakeholder value” means cuts have to come. If they’re not in quality, it’s in overhead (staff) - or both.

And now bosses have excuses for cuts to both back-office and production staff - “automation” and “AI” respectively.

“are we there yet” … “are we there yet”…

Me reading this in the bathroom on Thanksgiving

I’m so proud of you lot for even knowing what Death To Smoochy is. My fav movie of all time.

Yep. Big healthcare, same thing.

It’s like they don’t realize that AI at best is as good as having a mailroom full of overeager interns. Who in their right mind would want to put in front of clients?! Or worse have it run critical business systems.

And some basic image editing! At last