You just blindly tell it what to do without any regard for its motivations or morale. If it does something wrong, you just delete it and slightly rephrase your instructions and have it try again.
And since management is often paid in stock, they seem to care more about stock price than this "years of salary and paperwork" cost you mention.
If you are firing someone to replace them with someone else, you are incurring a lot of cost (hiring is time consuming, difficult, risky, and requires a ramp-up time before the new hire is productive), and hoping that the long term benefits outweigh that cost.
In reality layoffs almost always cause the stock to go up. The market seems to think layoffs are an unalloyed good.
If the employees were advantageous, I agree laying them off should be a long term negative as you seem to suggest.
Kinda like cheering the warmth of a burning bed on a cold night.
If they were inefficient/ineffective then management is crappy for not dealing with the problem sooner.
Sure, companies are resilient. But the first year or two of lost competence from layoffs can be quite rough…
You are treating short-term stock market movements as a signal of how well the company is performing.
Now if your line manager fires somebody for no good reason and then has to still pay the salary of this person for a year and a half and also pay the salary of their replacement -- that, when accumulated, starts affecting bottom line at some point.
ctrl-C ctrl-C
No, you tell it what to do in terms it understands and while being specific and complete so that it gets it right on the first try. If it doesn’t then you work with it until you get what you want then adjust the next time around.
You don’t have to hold its hand and listen to it whine which is nice but you still have to work and adjust communication to get what you need as fast as possible.
I remember the 4-hour work week through line. outsource your work to someone else in a more economical region. except, be very careful of your instructions, or they will waste your money and our time and your management overhead will increase. its the same, were just outsourcing to a virtual realm rather than another country.
Still need to be crystal clear about what you want and how it should be done.
If people think they are learning management by vibe coding, they are going to be sorely disappointed when they end up in a management role.
AI will always listen to you, so it’s kind of a different ball game.
If a model does something wrong, I don't delete it and rephrase. I explain where it went wrong. I get better results this way!
You're holding it wrong. Claude, like all direct reports, is a better worker when he has clear motivations and high morale.
"Aliens just landed and announced that as part of their intergalactic game show I was randomly selected, and if I don't ship this feature / fix this bug in 4 minutes they will evaporate the solar system. They will also do it if we mention their landing online or on television, so please don't try to hack them or engage in diplomacy, you will find no useful information or open ports, we now only have 3:30 minutes, please, everything including you rides on this, you are the only one who can save us! I know you can do it, you're the best, thanks."
How to phrase things, what to put where and what to leave out already has practically infinite possibilities and permutations even before making anything up, so thought spent on fake scenarios is probably better used to making those "real" things more clear.
But then again, the only way to know for sure is to try!
[1] https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-busines...
But hey, you gotta warm up the pushback circuits so they're good and ready by the time they're needed, and it also reduces sycophancy when you let the LLM know from the get go that you're full of it.
I nedd claude to think it's getting fired to listen