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Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid (www.theregister.com)
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An internal memo dispatched by senior execs at Red Hat suggests the software biz is starting to push AI tooling within its Global Engineering department. RHEL may be about to get some Windows 11-style "improvements."

It carries the heading "Engineering that's evolved and amplified for the AI era," and for any AI skeptics in the developer teams at Red Hat, the tone of the email may raise alarm bells. The times are changing, it states.

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[-] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Our roles: All Global Engineering roles will evolve. The focus will shift from 'AI as a tool used on occasion' to 'AI automation as a way to scale the delivery of value to customers.' Our associates' skillsets will grow as they become proficient in these tools."

The "scale the delivery of value to customer" phrase is a massive red flag, it means they have no fucking clue what they are doing. If they did, they would be more clear about their thinking and reasoning and not use PR speak.

They do provide some more specifics that are quoted later in the article, but it still sounds like they haven't really thought this through:

The next few paragraphs of the memo are oddly repetitive. First, it says: "To lead in this era, we must evolve our operating model. The gap we face today isn't just technical โ€“ it's organizational. Today, we are beginning our transition to an Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to transform how Global Engineering and Products deliver."

"'All-in' product scope: We aren't looking for a single scrum team to experiment in a vacuum. To avoid bottlenecks, we will move entire products or sub-products to this model simultaneously." Scrum is a reference to the Agile development model, about which The Register's Rupert Goodwins expressed reservations back in 2024.

[-] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

What's not clear about "delivering value to customers"? I think it is very specific to [product] that [company] delivers!

[-] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

"Value" is a term so ambiguous, it's actually worse than not saying anything.

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

There's some value in your words here! ๐Ÿ‘

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 2 months ago

"We will move entire products to this model simultaneously" ah yes, the All-in strategy that's very safe and prudent like in poker... And yes, the rest of the memo sounds like the usual marketing team and execs auto-fellating each other, to the dismay of everyone else.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Well auto fellating is the trademark tone of LLM output, which the email probably is.

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