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Comment by skywhopper | Hacker News Reader

Which ones? In reality, I mean, not executives’ fantasies.

I spend 90 minutes in a meeting with our CEO and two board members and the one guy went on almost the entire time about how amazing OpenAI Operators was and how we should find a way to replace most of our people with it. All because it was able to buy a plane ticket after he give it his login credentials.

Perfect example of a fantasy put forth by an executive.

these kind of comments on HN show me how many people lack creativity. wherever you work(ed) I am sure you met myriad of people and thought:

- they don’t do shit

- I can do what they do in my sleep

it is these types of jobs that are being replaced and are easily replaceable with a little bit of creativity and imagination…

The parent comment asked (very specifically!) for real examples, not C-suite fantasies. They received a reply literally describing the fantasy of a c-suite individual. I thought that was funny.

How my one sentence reply pointing out the irony of the reply led you to believe that I (we? lots of HNers?) lack creativity is beyond me.

If management knows that underperformers are underperformers in order to fire them in favor of LLMs then management could do it already in favor of better workers.

You can basically string replace "replace underperforming humans" with "replace humans". That is their dream

I'm dealing with this as well. CEO basically soiled himself with excitement in a group chat, some toadies joined in, most were silent. Because how else can you receive that other than "think of all the money we'd have if we could get rid of those needy workers"

The workers on whose work the thing was trained, too

You didn't notice a bunch of layoffs in 2024?

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