Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

tokenmaxxing is dead

"So began the gradual rollback of ... “tokenmaxxing,” the misguided — and ultimately short-lived — trend based on the idea that the solution to every problem is more AI. That view is falling out of favor, both because employers are reckoning with AI’s runaway costs and because workers are realizing that it’s not always the best way to get things done."

bwahahahaha. Someone tell Derek Flowers. Risk is so fu---d. AI is not the solution, but now the workplace is so toxic and the technology is to clunky no one wants to work in Risk.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/corporate-america-cracks-down-on-ai-spending-after-rushing-to-powerful-tools


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@ay , So AI here will be augmented bull sh...t. Splendid. Wasn't BE supposed to be the new face of tech. She and TK will lead this bank out of the wilderness. What is going on in OH? I see they are getting AI to fill out their Jira reports. When tech starts working on tools it means that there are no SMEs around, no business process reqs, no vision, and no bank. Remember this agile manifesto --- "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. "

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Post ID: @gp+1kyvxy264

Anti-Intelligence.

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Post ID: @fy+1kyvxy264

Derek Flowers can get the bozack.

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Post ID: @dc+1kyvxy264

@as great point. Too bad we have none of those rational and smart leader types. Ai will just get you to where you were headed anyway quicker. If you had good people building great product you would get there quicker. If you had a bunch of d-mb*sses building garbage systems you just break the bank quicker.

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Post ID: @d4+1kyvxy264

ai for the sake of ai was never going to work. time to transition back to actual intelligence

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Post ID: @bb+1kyvxy264

Stupid sh-t......you realize DF gets a chubby by reading the complaints in the Employee Survey? He WANTS a toxic environment to get to his 5K employee total where most of those are in India, anyway.

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Post ID: @b3+1kyvxy264

@as , NO. AI means augmented intelligence -- not artificial intelligence. This means you need some intelligence first. Most of the intelligence at this bank walked out of it a long time ago. So sad....

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Post ID: @ay+1kyvxy264

Rational and smart leaders understand that AI is a tool to be used under the guidance of SMEs. Absolutely, AI is transformative and will change how work gets done. However, it is MOST effective when used to enhance current methods, well-established practices and to provide insight within these to further penetrate understanding. For example, you don't throw out every great doctor in a hospital because AI has the PDR committed to memory. You do use AI to enhance medicine. Not to replace it.

You honestly think these bozos get any of this?!?! Yeah, I don't either.

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