Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

@at You made me laugh. I worked at the HO in ISD for 10 years. When WM started investing heavily in contractors, we had one contracting company do both the development and the support. As you said, they had no incentive to install anything correctly. They would just pin the pin on a grenade and throw it over the wall to their support team making it their problem. That's when things started becoming half-@$$ed.

@aa Actually, the truth is just the opposite. Big tech companies such as Oracle, Meta and IBM have massive programs already underway where AI is successfully auditing and identifying its own issues, generating fixes and promoting new code to production. Once this whole process matures, we’re gonna see significant reduction in the legacy tech fields, with perhaps one or two exceptions, that being data engineers (think DBAs and architects) and environmental engineers to keep test systems, tools and production environments up.

Now having said that, I don’t see Walmart moving forward with any of this because the vast majority of tech projects at Walmart fail because, quite frankly, their tech leadership su-ks and they don’t know how to do the right things. And of course, their consultant partners have no vested interest in seeing Walmart complete anything successfully.

None of these doom and gloom predictions about AI are going to come true. They aren't AI, they're just HUUUUGE if, then, else statements. Every company that tries to replace people with AI has to hire people to correct or fix AI responses. It's all just a giant bullsh-t con job.