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Comment by dude250711 | Hacker News Reader

Consultancies are under a direct threat from AI, so they are weirdly trying to over-embrace it in a hope that that will save them somehow.

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I wouldn't say they're at threat from AI. Consultancies are most of the time there to partially offload work from the main company, and also to serve as someone to blame when something does not go well. It's rarely about the content itself.

Interestingly they never seem to suffer when they get blamed for their shoddy work. I guess it's free advertising "use us as a third party to blame for terrible decisions and bad data"

Like here. No one fired, no refund, tax payers happily scammed again.

Like with bit IT projects I think simple truth is that projects have grown too large for anyone but select handful to sell them as service. So even if you remember bad experience from past 3 you go back to the 4th each single time.

If the whole British Post Office Scandal (Fujistu, btw) in the UK wasn't enough, nothing will be. People literally killed themselves over the accusations/convictions that were 100% false. One of the major people responsible was an Anglican Priest(!) of all people who was so sure that the Computer Is Right... [0]

We're headed for even rougher times if LLMs are going to be taken "at their word".

[0] Now, watching her testimony, it seems she was willfully complicit and it's a disgrace that she isn't in prison, but that's tangential. The "system" was responsible, but without personal accountability, nothing will change. So it goes.

Yup, they are often just Accountability Sinks.

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