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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by meroes on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:11AM (#46668952)
What masterful framing AI leaders developed that people say, “AI is doing my work”.

Did other technologies get phrased this way? The accounting software is doing my work? The locomotive is doing my work?

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by whimsicalism on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:18AM (#46669030)
yeah it’s all branding. there is totally nothing different about this technology that might cause someone to say that…

e:tone

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by zdragnar on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:28AM (#46669123)
The technology is different, but we've been told that we'll be replaced by foreign teams for years. It's had some impact, but in all but two of the cases I've personally seen it has been significantly detrimental. In the majority of cases, the offshore team was either replaced or relegated to pointless busy work.
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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by whimsicalism on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:34AM (#46669189)
i don’t find that at all a compelling argument, but maybe others will
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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by ctoth on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:30AM (#46669154)
Do you not remember the early days of Covid?

People are really, really, really good at not seeing what they don't want to see.

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Re:AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the... by TiredOfLife on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:37PM (#46671349)
> The accounting software is doing my work?

That is literally what accounting software did. It made the work of 10 people into work of 3 people with software

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