I’d love to know how much money is being burned on that hallucinating mess, and how many people were pushed out specifically “because of AI.” Sure, most cuts were really about offshoring, but some people absolutely were replaced in the name of AI, and the productivity expectations tied to it keep creeping up. It’s about time people noticed that, in most cases, AI just drains time and energy. Replace people? Good luck relying on a machine that can’t give you the same answer twice.
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@pd you must have a job where spitting out regurgitated boilerplate filler is the main requirement.
Hardly. That's what people said about computers. I use AI tools multiple times per day. It increases the quantity quality, and speed of my work. It's given me the opportunity to volunteer for other work, resulting in greater visibility. You're free to be left behind, if you choose to do so.
@e2 this is terribly written what are you even saying. Did you recently graduate or something
AI simps hide their mental illness so well lol
@OP, the AI isn’t the problem.
The environment is. Wells Fargo already proved it can’t adopt anything new without turning it into a we-pon:
PCF → OpenShift → flop
Agile → “wagile” → back to tyrannical command-and-control
Cloud migration → still on SSIS in 2025
Automation program → ghost teams and endless meetings
Now watch them do the exact same thing with AI: Hallucinations become the excuse
Bullying managers will demand 10× output while refusing to learn prompting
Every gain will be pocketed as “efficiency” and used to justify more offshoring
Any failure will be blamed on the tool, not the fear culture that sabotaged it
JPMorgan, Capital One, Truist, ING—all regulated, all geographically spread—are already using AI to cut costs 20-30 %, boost revenue, and actually empower teams. Wells Fargo? Same old coercive playbook: fear, control, blame, repeat AI works beautifully when you have psychological safety and real collaboration.
Here, it’s just the newest stick to beat people with. Document the sabotage, upskill on their dime (AI certs, Snowflake, LangChain), quietly quit, and jump to a bank that treats AI as a teammate, not a threat.
Read The Fearless Organization—you’ll see why this place is doomed to fail at every transformation it touches. My mission: fearless workplaces. There’s a better option—go take it.
... and "South Park" nailed the annoying AI quirks to 1) Agree with anything you say and 2) to give you a Big Compliment to Stroke your Ego. Hmmm, there may be AI already running the Executive Cabinet..
It's going to take forever. It takes quite a bit of effort to implement and use it well.
Its going to be interesting to see how AI is developed and used at this fear-driven bank. How is the "automation" program going? How is your cloud migration going? How is your CI/CD going?
The LLMs are actually the worst AI models out there. You can use an open source AI on your phone or home computer, that you train to specialize in your own domain, and it will be far more accurate than a LLM because it won't have been trained on the entirety of the internet unless you choose to do so (good luck affording that).
Decentralized AI will be the future.
Sure, keep telling yourself that
I was let go in June, so maybe AI ?
All Indian
Or DEI
Doing Everything Indian ?