I'm legitimately "Steve" at a much smaller tech company. I also do product management (lol) and QA (a cursory check before the customers really QA it for us).

I will never get any help, the only answer is to build out a magical LLM automation at the same time as responding to a flood of emails/tickets/meetings/calls.

I've learned not to ask for help as that turns into a homework assignment with due dates.

At least I still have a well paying tech job in 2025, until the house of cards collapses.

It's this, 100%. This shit is not intelligent, it's just really good at saying yes to every request with a smile, then offering to do more. This is why C Suite loves it so much.

oh your company didn't just shove Jira administration at the engineering team resulting in executives pinging them to do drop everything and add a new field or troubleshoot why their client couldn't see a ticket?

The language in the statute is "exceeding authorized access"

I don't think there needs to be any legally binding contract?

This is basically the "just because the door is unlocked doesn't mean you can help yourself to my toolshed" that they hit people who access systems with all the time.

Pretty sure they just talked to an LLM to shit out that description and didn't read the output (who wants to).

Given my experience in the industry in 2025 they probably would have been reprimanded if someone in management caught wind that they were making blog entries without an LLM writing them.

I'd like to know the total power consumption of all of their LLM queries and initiatives.

They are going to fire the human representatives

It's going to be really funny when all of these companies who fired half their staff get the pot turned up to "we need to be profitable" pricing.

Yes, it will probably still be cheaper than a human being, especially a western one. But OpenAI would be stupid not to charge 5 digits to replace a 6 digit office worker.

They added an AI button to Gmail (we use web gmail for work) and let me tell you that our email communications are not 100% written 'with AI assistance'. But the button is there 100% of time, so our CEO would happily tell investors that they are.

Christ holographic avatars and AI and SaaS. Maybe they can fit in blockchain & IoT to go for the blackout bingo

Exactly. I've been paying MLB like $130 a year to get (most) of the baseball games every year and it feels fine. It only works because the team I mostly follow is out of market where I live, so never blacked out for that reason.

It loses value slowly as they try to double dip by selling those games I've already paid for to other networks and services exclusively -- Apple TV here, Roku there, a Fox or ESPN exclusive national game. It's infurating to pay for all the games and not get all the games.

It's also going to be funny when the people actually making the LLMs that give "OK performance" move past the user acquisition phase and put on their SaaS boots and start trying to cash in on their investments. If their LLM is worth the equivalent of Western knowledge-labor they aren't going to give unlimited queries for peanuts at some point. The calculus will get trickier for the business owner when it's tens of thousands of dollars for the "All AI" option.

My problem with the "magic" it's only magic if it actually serves me.

There is a reason my logged in Google account doesn't allow me to do basic things like "never show this domain in search results again" which might allow me to actually get an ecosystem going that gives me sane results -- because I'm the product, not the customer.

It would be great to have an AI "agent" that waited over time and snagged the best flight on *my* terms regarding times/pricing/layovers/amenities. But the reality is is that they just want to go back to the airlines and say "25 Million Users are searching for flights through our AI bot, lets start the bidding on who we should prioritize"

And you're the decent person in the middle, yes?