Fuck this ad for AI. It's trying to make it seem like workers don't use AI because they're scared. It's only 8% that said they were scared. The rest of us 92% workers aren't scared we're going to be replaced by AI. We see how shitty AI is and we don't like it because it sucks and makes things slower, not faster.

The super-users we surveyed were around 3x more likely to have received both a promotion and pay raise in the past year, compared to employees who have been slow to adopt these tools

I do agree with this point. One of my team members recently got a lot of brownie points because he's been doing AI demos. The execs love him because he's visibly following orders. Does he generate way more code than everyone else? YES, this is actually a horrible thing, but execs are clueless and think more code == more better. Is he more productive than others? Definitely not. The hot garbage he's generating is just bug-ridden tech debt.

I guess I'm sabotaging our AI rollout by getting out of the way. You wanna inject AI everywhere? Fine, do it. I'm not gonna review it though. If you can't take the time to write something, I'm not going to spend my time reading it.

Oh no, it's so irresponsible of europesays.com to publish this practical list of ways to sabotage your company's AI rollout. Hopefully no other outlets include longer, more detailed lists, or we might see this kind of behavior start to spread:

The sabotage entails entering proprietary information into public AI tools, or using unapproved AI tools. Some employees report outright refusing to use AI tools. Others have even admitted to tampering with performance reviews or intentionally generating low-output work to make AI appear less effective.

I see they're laying the groundwork for a "stabbed in the back" narrative, when AI inevitably bursts.

My boss asked people with tech skills to chime in about AI, so I made a quick report of a bunch of things that AI sounds like it'd be useful for in my line of work, and why it wouldn't be, with examples of times when a real human made the same kind of mistake while I've been working there, and how much that mistake cost the company. He decided not to pursue AI. You can call it sabotaging the AI strategy, or you can call it helping keep the company from making a major fuckup, take your pick.

Some employees report outright refusing to use AI tools.

So having morals is sabotage now?

Only a living wage can prevent warehouse fires.

Too soon?

From the article:

An Anthropic study released last month found AI is already theoretically capable of completing the majority of tasks associated with computer science, law, business, and finance, and other major white-collar fields

There's a huge difference between "capable of completing the majority of tasks" and "capable of completing the majority of tasks WELL".

Sure, you can have an AI code your web app or mobile app, due example. But it will be riddled with bugs, and bloated with inefficient code.

And from what I've seen, it's not getting noticeable better at that.

But the AI companies won't acknowledge that, of course. They will continue selling the snake oil that cures everything that ails you.

The company I work for is pushing Claude and have set up a bunch of training sessions for us after noticing the lack of use instructing us to plan to attend one of these sessions. I keep ignoring every push they make. Why the hell would I train this hallucinating liar to take my job? It's crazy to expect us to use the thing they want to eventually replace us with.

Only 29% admit to it. Most of the other 70% have the sense to keep their mouths shut.

Read the article. Their definition of "sabotage" includes not using AI tools.

I guess the wording says "sabotaging AI strategy" so it's our fault for the intended misunderstanding?

The AI First companies will reap what they sow.

The rest are telling that 29% to shut the fuck up.

had an AI training this morning... Asked a very pointed question about how to prevent hallucinations and bad responses, their response was hilarious.

I think i headed off AI at my job.

Back when chat gpt was still new, the DOO of the 20 person company company i worked at sent out a employment contract out as a PDF asking us to esign. I replied-all back asking if it was intentional that there was a 3 year non-compete in the middle of a list of terms under a header stating

' is an at will state. The following terms of employmebt are revokeable by either party upon notice of termination of employment:'

The company owner replied back LOL to the group and that was the last of it. They never did actually end up asking us to sign an employment contract. Have yet to see any AI adoption, besides the office director occasionally responding to my emails based on mistakes she blames on the ai summary.

I was wondering the other day whether AI companies were polluting their competitions AI sources to make their AI look better.

You gotta pump those up! Those are rookie numbers.

Look what modernity has done to our Xwing pilots

We did it Reddit! We stopped AI!

Seeing the dumb fuck everywhere in corpo, they don't need any sabotage. Some people don't know how to write a jira 10 years after a reorganization. Or can't create a git repo on the first shot after 10 year at a post. Train an AI on him and you fuck all your datas. Most of smart people don't want to be the first to go because they have objective and they know that a new tools fuck the rhythm at first and AI is blingbling for most use case for now.

And we'll do it again!