Re:Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation"
by __loam on Monday April 07, 2025 @07:19PM
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You've hit the nail on the head imo. The reason business leadership is stoked about this stuff is because they don't actually know anything about how their product gets built.
Re:Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation"
by cratermoon on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:47AM
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LLMs are really good at this kind business-centric writing.
The style contains little actual content,
so anything that can produce a lot of words with limited content can do it. Also, meaning in business communication is almost an afterthought.
Read the post again. Does this look like something a LLM would struggle to write?
A lot of people in upper management spend an awful lot of time writing meaningless word salad. They take a single sentence like "20% is getting fired" and turn it into a four-page essay about "strategic realignment", "streamlining growth", and "enabling the future of the $corp family". It doesn't really mean anything, so there's no way for a LLM to get it wrong.
If you haven't used AI to do complicated tasks where the details actually matter, I'm not surprised you'd get the idea that it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.