Ask HN: Burnout on "AI" and Adjacent Teams
Some things I’ve experience or heard about from colleagues lately at big companies
* The Tech Bro CEO pressure to AI everything
* completely discarding roadmaps or actual user features to build a dubious AI thing
* death march projects
* a complete disregard for team health - despite lip service. Even in orgs that once demonstrated care for these things in the past
* Disinterest in existing organizational context. Ignore lessons learned how to ship products
* Some Tech Bro Czar of AI appointed that ignore all team norms and completely derails roadmaps for their pet idea
* Lack of interest in retention. If people with organizational context leave, it’s almost seen as a good thing
* Proliferation of AI yes- men that agree with brilliant founder of head of AI
It’s as if suddenly leaders have permission to ignore everything we know about organizational psychology and building longer term cultures to ship an AI toy.