Hey, new ludicity post. wonder why he did a saturday post, he'll miss the HN monday cycle.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

For this reason, our team has quickly learned while on an engagement not to ask anything about ongoing AI projects in any context – by the time that project has started, it is too late for the management team, and intervention is not possible until a crisis point is inevitably reached. There is no conceivable positive outcome. The failure rate is so high that even basic inquiry leaves us in an untenable position. Any coherent question about how it’s going, what the goal is, who is using it, constitutes an inadvertent attack on the chain of command responsible for the work because there are no good answers to anything.

Matches my experience consulting these last few years. I'm still waiting to hear about the one gig where AI doesn't eventually degenerate into a CYA circlejerk. Perhaps that is just the dominant eigenvector of the technical consulting process.

Several of my peers now “AI-wash” their work, meaning that even when they can perfectly competently execute on their jobs to the satisfaction of their management teams, said managers are unhappy if the engineers haven’t used AI in the work.

Been there too.

Also, apparently layoffs.fyi added an "attributed to AI" filter - https://layoffs.fyi/ai-layoffs/