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Axios'management Pushes AI Internally

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Yeah this one riled me up so much that I published a properly written and edited response as an open letter to Axios, which I also mailed to them: https://medium.com/@conradbuck_53013/an-open-letter-to-axios...

Interested in your opinions on bites like "We tell most staff they should be spending 10% or more of their day using AI to discover ways to double their performance by the end of the year. Some, like coders, should shoot for 10x-ing productivity as AI improves."

Also very interested on testomonies from employees inside Axios (take care to protect your anonymity).

From a 100x coder who has never touched AI my reaction is approximately "ROTFLOL".

It's the same bullshit every time. The only ways to go 100x are to create network effects of productivity: lift up others.

The LLM pitch is: "you will fight the whole world completely alone." "Not even your own management has your back!" "Your worth is garbage without my expert management which consist of saying the words 'everybody just use AI'."

The ONLY way you can 10x your perf by using AI a lot is if your job performance is directly determined by how much you use AI.

People who actually build the AIs increase their job performance by using AIs, because they are gaining domain knowledge of their own product. Their incentives are not your incentives.

This article's author is trying to implicitly claim that they are an AMAZING 100x employee because all they had to do to get there was force AI adoption for everyone else. Once again the only real 10x gain to be had is for the person who is measuring their productivity as a function of AI adoption. This person's 10x - 100x wins are coming at the cost of losses for everyone else around them -- the people whose job descriptions don't have anything at all do with AI -- those are the people that they are vampirically sucking the life out of while writing about it with open glee

"I recently told the Axios staff that we're done sugar-coating it, and see an urgent need for every employee to turn AI into a force multiplier for their specific work."

It's just more of the worst of the worst. I swear these people would sit there with a straight face and sell you the incredible potential of human achievement as if you've never heard of it before

Not to mention the article was a regurgitation of consensus with no critical thinking, apparently no writing. The bullet point style and AI cover art makes me think that this person has fully embraced making slop content as their job, and in fact no longer capable of critical thinking or really anything other than towing this line, on which they have clearly bet their livelihood.

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