"Asam is one of many businesses executives who've been startlingly candid about their intentions to displace human labor with AI tools or agents. From their point of view, you can directly replace your overpaid, calling-in-sick grunts with ever-dependable AI agents. Or you can whittle your workforce down to a skeleton crew that are super efficient thanks to the magical abilities of AI."
"One wrinkle: for every one of these head honchos gloating about kicking their human underlings to the curb, there's countless reports of them having to eat their words and beg their ousted workers to come back. Not because they've had a moral change of heart, usually, but because they realize that AI kind of sucks. It still hallucinates more than a Delphic oracle, breaks its own guardrails,"
Dominik Asam, chief finance officer at Europe's largest software company, states that AI increases automation and allows the company to afford fewer people for the same output. The company aims to use AI coding tools to boost code production and automate thousands of back-office tasks. Many business executives view AI as a catalyst to replace or slim down workforces. However, AI systems still hallucinate, break guardrails, and sometimes reduce efficiency, forcing some companies to rehire displaced workers. Studies have shown programmers' workflows can be slowed by having to constantly double-check AI coding suggestions. Engineers at the company are adopting AI tools.
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