So there’s something I need to get off my chest, and if I post it on my LinkedIn it would be career suicide at my level.
In a company, the largest line item by far is usually payroll. I have been at a number of companies that are trying to cut costs and don’t care if you come up with the correct amount via other OpEx categories, they want headcount reduced because “it’s so much”.
So along comes the promise of a computer bot that understands the normal person and also:
- Does not require sick/vacation time
- Does not take FMLA
- Does not want a bonus/profit sharing/equity
- Don’t have to pay unemployment taxes, Medicare or SSI
- Does not require them to spend money on health insurance
- Will not form a union
- Wont ever file a lawsuit for any number of reasons
- Will work 24/7
And this right there is the exact reason so many CEOs are salivating at the idea of AI. Not for worker efficiency, not for any number of “positive” benefits they may taut, but they finally have a glimpse of the chance to rid themselves of one of the largest headaches that they perceive in a company.
I am impressed. I’m still a plebe — who has to use three hyphens.
(And this is how I found out that three hyphens in Markdown = an em dash!)
ETA: Oh, wow, you can make an en dash – with two hyphens! Mind. Blown.
Yes. Markdown has some coding to let you enter en and em dashes. (Apparently it’s sufficiently important a feature that they put it in there. Weird that.)
But that’s unfortunately not good enough when you have to Énŧèr ştůff like this. (That double-f is a single character, note.) At that point you use a better keyboard layout.
And 连输入汉字都别想！ (Don’t even ask about entering Chinese!)