Older technology companies often struggle with financial growth because many long-time legacy employees mistakenly believe their tenure exempts them from competing with a global workforce. This mindset undermines operational agility and inflates labor costs, especially as outsourced talent offers similar skills at a lower price point. Without adapting to global competition, these firms risk stagnation while more dynamic, internationally integrated competitors surge ahead.
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Have you noticed lately that email threads and online discussions are starting to sound... eerily polished? Suspiciously diplomatic? Like everyone suddenly became super articulate overnight?
Yeah. Spoiler alert: You're not reading the thoughts of Karen from Finance or Mike from Product. You're reading ChatGPT with a company email signature slapped on it.
Here’s the modern workflow:
Copy the last message.
Paste it into ChatGPT.
Type something like, “Make me sound smart but chill, and a little passive-aggressive.”
Hit send.
Congratulations—you’ve just contributed to a thread without using a single original thought!
We’ve reached a point where reading through long email chains or forum replies is like flipping through AI Mad Libs. Everyone sounds the same, everyone “appreciates your input,” and no one’s saying anything real. It's like arguing with mannequins in a very polite dressing room.
The irony? These responses feel so human—because they’re trained on all our old, genuine, messy human conversations. So now we’re feeding it back into itself like a language ouroboros. Pretty soon, ChatGPT will start quoting ChatGPT, and we’ll all just be spectators in the world’s most articulate echo chamber.
So if you’re wondering why a thread you’re reading feels like it’s been auto-generated by a public relations robot… it probably has.
Somebody likes to use lots of words to say very little.
"many long-time legacy employees mistakenly believe their tenure exempts them from competing with a global workforce"
I reject the premise stated above. If an employee at Cisco believes that tenure = privilege, they'll find themselves PIPd pretty quick.
In contrast, tenure supremacy mentality probably dominates in gov't jobs.
I would say this is true. Everyone is the best on the planet, yet when it comes to substance they are still bouncing ports or creating MOPs, putting dates in canned project plans, or trying to make a sale from the grocery store or golf course. The ELT has the wrong parrots telling them how things are(n't). AI won't fix everything either. It will only make it easier to identify who's not cutting it. The problem still exists but it's less obvious -take note cisco board. You can collapse a LOT of director + roles, then find some competence at the LC CR levels.