We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

jgbuddy

AI could never write this

noir_lord

> We began a heated affair. A contractor hit a pipe above us, so rancid mayo splattered onto our bodies as we embraced, but we were too absorbed in our passion to mind. Try doing that from home. I can't remember the last time something I read on the internet got a laugh that hard. The whole thing is brilliant.

selwoot

I reminds me of something I read years ago. Maybe sometime around 1984...

neutrinobro

> Associate Slop Doula had me ROFL

BLKNSLVR

I'm assuming ButtFuckers demerged to become CageFight Pharma and SodaPorn.

mhd

I hope "slop doula" sticks around…

cafebabbe

Gosh it's so soothing to read that after those months of drowning into the turbulent deluge of dAIrrhea that are blogposts now

indoordin0saur

Hilarious read, and strangely accurate in a way.

phplovesong

RTO is the worst shit managers try to push.

iou

I thought mcsweeneys did satire?

talhaanwar

Remind of covid days. But i prefer wfh

flir

"More leaders means more leadership" Heh. Also: make it stop!!!

bethekind

RTO4AI should be a slogan. Or some variant thereof

ARandomerDude

> I am one of fifteen rank-and-file workers, and we are privileged to be led by thousands of Senior VPs. This is simultaneously hilarious and painfully familiar.

_doctor_love

This was very funny! Paradoxically, I have found that working with people in person is the fastest way to enable them on using AI. It feels very similar to teaching pair programming and TDD. I can do it over remote, but there's a magic spark that happens in person that is really not replicable any other way.

burningChrome

> founded as a mayonnaise company, which now sells consumer packaged goods, software as a service, and surveillance technology. The visual of this is completely hilarious.

liquid_thyme

We used to develop AI to convince us its human (turing test). The future is about convincing AI/Automated Systems that you're - competent (hiring), not a bot (anti-spam), doing your job (KPIs), not a threat (ala social score, AI powered weapons targeting), worthy of being saved (insurance claims), etc, etc. Whether or not humans break from those shackles, I for one, am hoping Hollywood supplies us with wonderfully dystopian sci-fi entertainment for years to come.

lbrito

Sounds like Amazon pivoted to the mayo business!

neuroelectron

Returning to the office doesn't solve the problem of replacing office jobs with AI

gmiller123456

This guy is a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.