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A fat company’s guide to seppuku with AI

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CXOs of a few companies have asked me if I could teach their devs to use AI for code. They should ask me to cure cancer instead. If a university degree only taught us one thing it should be that when you force people to learn something, they do everything except learning that thing. I can’t make people learn things that they have no interest or benefit in learning. AI might increase their productivity by 10x but they are still being paid for a 9-to-5 job and they are working the same time after AI that they were working before AI. They gain nothing from trying to keep up to date with the latest in AI when everything in AI changes every 2 weeks. The top down approach works as well as the SMS OTP services in Pakistan. But what if an engineer working in a company wanted to do it bottom up and they really pushed for it. Well, they should expect to be rewarded as well as Semmelweis. Semmelweis was a doctor who realised that less people died in his wards when he washed hands. So he pushed h

A fat company’s guide to seppuku with AI Home A fat company’s guide to seppuku with AI April, 2025 CXOs of a few companies have asked me if I could teach their devs to use AI for code. They should ask me to cure cancer instead. If a university degree only taught us one thing it should be that when you force people to learn something, they do everything except learn that thing. I can’t make people learn things that they have no interest or benefit in learning. AI might increase their productivity by 10x but they are still being paid for a 9-to-5 job and they are working the same time after AI t

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