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aeon_ai ◴[] No.44984252[source]
AI is a change management problem.

Using it well requires a competent team, working together with trust and transparency, to build processes that are designed to effectively balance human guidance/expertise with what LLM's are good at. Small teams are doing very big things with it.

Most organizations, especially large organizations, are so far away from a healthy culture that AI is amplifying the impact of that toxicity.

Executives who interpret "Story Points" as "how much time is that going to take" are asking why everything isn't half a point now. They're so far removed from the process of building maintainable and effective software that they're simply looking for AI to serve as a simple pass through to the bottom line.

The recent study showing that 95% of AI pilots failed to deliver ROI is a case study in the ineffectiveness of modern management to actually do their jobs.

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xg15 ◴[] No.44995318[source]
> Using it well requires a competent team, working together with trust and transparency, to build processes that are designed to effectively balance human guidance/expertise with what LLM's are good at. Small teams are doing very big things with it.

This reads a bit like "you're holding it wrong". If you need your team and organization to already be in a perfect state before AI usage will stop doing damage, what is the point of it in the first place.

Especially if AI is promoted as a "magic bullet" that will likely especially be uses by teams that are already dysfunctional.

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1. kledru ◴[] No.44995800[source]
"change management problem". We can forget AI specifically for a second -- there are teams and organizations that can adapt to change and there are those that cannot. Some orgs have invested heavily in rigid structures and processes and it probably made a lot of sense that time, but these were never going to survive paradigm shifts.