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  • There’s a reel of a dad watching a sport game on TV with his infant son. The kid keeps looking at his dad for how to react, and seems to understand what’s happening on the TV. When the team scores a point, the kid throws his hands up into the air and cheers, having seen his dad do that behaviour before.

    Then he looks to his dad, who’s got his hands on his head, saying “NO!”. It was the wrong team that scored.

    The kid puts his head into his hands, and collapses on the couch in his best imitation of his father.

    You have years, perhaps decades, of watching people in your culture do this. So it feels natural for you to do.




  • That’s the thing – governments have a lot more requirements than corporations. They’ve also got a whole lot more riding on them, so the stakes are higher.

    You have to pay for consultants since you need to get the best talent, but you can’t afford (and don’t need) them to be on the payroll forever.

    You have to pay for auditors because you’re under more financial scrutiny.

    You have to take things more slowly because you can’t make risky decisions and there are layers upon layers of bureaucracy regarding decisions.

    So what do we cut out?

    Get rid of the consultants? Well, you either hire them (whose salaries you can’t afford – top talent will leave), or you don’t bring on consultants at all (which means you can’t do the things you need to do). Or you pay your staff for training, which might work, but then those staff might leave and the investment is gone before anything new is built. And it might cost as much as the consultants, plus take longer.

    Get rid of the auditors? But we want more financial scrutiny.

    Get rid of the bureaucracy? Sure, everyone would love that. Except when the reason for each strip of red tape is revealed when something goes wrong.

    Like you said, there are no easy answers. And when these costs have justifications for existing, I think that’s when they turn from “waste” to “necessary (yet unfortunate) expenses”.















  • otp@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy I am not impressed by A.I.
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    As for accuracy, you review what it gives you, you don’t just copy and send it without review.

    Yeah, I don’t get why so many people seem to not get that.

    It’s like people who were against Intellisense in IDEs because “What if it suggests the wrong function?”…you still need to know what the functions do. If you find something you’re unfamiliar with, you check the documentation. You don’t just blindly accept it as truth.

    Just because it can’t replace a person’s job doesn’t mean it’s worthless as a tool.