Im really tired of the constant lectures about how wonderful AI is and being pressed on how we need to submit ideas to the company on use cases and things about our job that can be automated and done with AI. Whats the benefit if I spend a minute of my thought on this stuff. Being eliminated sooner? At Cisco I guess you can argue that will be a benefit but would it double my bonus or even get me a 3% raise at the end of the year? He-l no. Figure out the cr-p yourselves or put an AI geek on each team to take care of it and quit jamming it down our throat! This sh-t may be the company goal but it sure isnt a goal of mine.
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hey mates.
What if the push from management for you to use AI (especially Circuit and My Agent) is so they can capture your AI ingenuity and workflows in order to train the people who will use these workflows to replace you?
You are teaching them how to replace you...
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cisco-gives-27-year-old-engineer-unlimited-ai-tokens-to-rewrite-98-percent-of-the-companys-legacy-code-in-24-months-president-plucks-former-startup-founder-telling-him-to-go-nuts
I remember this very arrogant SVP in Finance bragging "if you don't get with AI you are going to get left behind". Guy truly thought he was a boss for saying this. Yet he wasn't implementing AI in his job, only ours. It was obvious it was meant as a precursor to automating and replacing our roles, considering they ignored the warnings and issues we had with the AI models. It's been exhausting, I was hired to do a job, and I have to constantly 1) Push AI initiatives I wasn't hired for 2) do work I wasn't hired for 3) get denied promotions and raises. I will gladly let the AI models run the FP&A into the ground if that's what leadership wants.
@bd ahh keyloggers. From the domestic abusers playbook. Odd being monitored like a prisoner in our own homes
This is why Cisco has deployed key loggers. You can refuse AI, but AI will still replace you over time. Remember when all the self satisfied politicians were telling rust belt residents to "learn to code". Well, learn to weld. It's your turn.
@ad no. But they might track the vast amount of non-work or fake work .
It’s very clear in my org that they are incrementally getting closer to a place where there will be fewer employees. Skeleton crew operating products.
Keep thinking "embracing AI" will save you. If you have a high salary and even a CCIE cert you will be swapped for some offshore employee they can replace you with thats able to work with an AI agent for 30K a year.
- prefacing by saying technical jobs do not apply to the below*
If YOU personally owned a company would you pay a basic office worker (coordinator, manager, admin, power point operator, senior email sender) $200k+ a year to pretend to work? (cue gaming, at the grocery store, on literal vacation in europe while "working" remotely, mouse movers, appearing as present but not, in bed, scrolling, watching tiktok, making tiktoks. etc)
- when AI can do it for $4 a day?
Would you personally choose the first route?
Multiply that by several 1000 (yes that many are time thefting and doing not a heck of a lot to justify making over <30k a year) and you have unnecessary tech debt - all from bullsh-t jobs.
So somewhere in the $800 million plus range - would you choose that?
again all technical roles do not apply
Super productive and embrace AI or lose your job??? The fact is they wont need any of us with a high salary or even half the skills or experience when they can have a warehouse full of people offshore with zero engineering skills that are able to feed sh-t into an AI Agent. So you can kiss your job goodbye anyway is the simple fact. Have fun embracing AI for 40K a year. I will move on to something worthwhile instead that is completely out of this sh-tshow.
Remember when blockchain was going to fix world hunger and wash your car? How's that going.
Soon AI will track your screen and keyboard to train on Cisco work. Eventually lot less folks needed on payroll. It’s happening now…
Embrace AI to become super productive or be prepared to be unemployed for a very long time. Your choice.