The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype machine

Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by throwaway2037 on Saturday May 31, 2025 @02:42AM (#44142338)

I don't want to shill for LLMs-for-devs, but I think this is excellent corporate strategy by Microsoft. They are dog-fooding LLMs-for-devs. In a sense, this is R&D using real world tests. It is a product manager's dream.

The Google web-based office productivity suite is similar. I heard a rumor that at some point Google senior mgmt said that nearly all employees (excluding accounting) must use Google Docs. I am sure that they fixed a huge number of bugs plus added missing/blocking feature, which made the product much more competitive vs MSFT Office. Fifteen years ago, Google Docs was a curiosity -- an experiment for just how complex web apps could become. Today, Google Docs is the premiere choice for new small businesses. It is cheaper than MSFT Office, and "good enough".

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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by singron on Saturday May 31, 2025 @10:15AM (#44144417)

Google docs has gotten a little better in that time, but it's honestly surprisingly unchanged. I think what really changed is that we all stopped wanting to layout docs for printing and became happier with the simpler feature set (along with collaboration and distribution).

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