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Comment by AndrewDucker | Hacker News Reader

To be fair, with the level of competence of most Accenture staff, they're basically on par with most AI anyway.

Honestly, of all the people that should be sweating LLMs taking their jobs, it should be enterprise consulting folks - especially the ones at places like McKinsey. A large portion of those jobs involve writing bullshit rehashed documentation that nobody reads, which is a specialty of LLMs.

McKinsey and other consulting companies aren't really paid to consult so much as they are paid scapegoats. Management just needs someone to blame if something goes wrong. LLMs won't really ever replace them.

Not just to blame. They also sell credibility to a lot of managers and bosses.

I've experienced it often enough that upper management doesn't listen to their own employees. Ultimately, a consultant comes in, talks to employees, suggests the exact same thing to the same people, and they love it.

Having that branding on the ppt slides sells ideas. If you're a project manager or department lead and need to push through an idea but your boss won't let you? Try hiring a consultant who will sell it to your boss.

They're also useful for industrial espionage. It gets laundered as "industry best practices" and it's part of what you (may) pay them for.

"The computer said so" has been a scapegoat since the 1960s.

They are very concerned smaller shops are going to start eating their lunch since you can do what they do without hiring 1000000 people in the future

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