Post #4349003

2026-07-12 07:41 UTC

So the AI business “model” is: 1. NOT HIRING 📉 juniors to create human candidates for the specialists & experts with work experience. 2. BURNING OUT ☢️ mid-level engineers, hardware (prices rising), infrastructure consumed unsustainably (water & electricity) to make everyone “addicted” to AI-LLM word & sentence calculator. 3. PUSHING OUT 📉 experienced senior-level engineers who advise & set tech strategy for “the business”. This is the “Kodak” & “Boeing” business downfall case studies combined.

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@tanyakaroli@expressional.social 2026-08-03 09:54

@dahukanna@mastodon.social I can’t wait for this business model to crash - but I’m really sorry for all the workers who get run over on the way.

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@FlipperPA@fosstodon.org 2026-07-12 11:16

@dahukanna@mastodon.social Here’s a piece I wrote. I was considering Boeing and Kodak as candidates but planes falling out of the sky seemed harsh to make a point. https://technical.ly/company-culture/sony-intel-leadership-tech-decline-guest-post/

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@thalia@discuss.systems 2026-07-12 23:02

@dahukanna@mastodon.social I'm less familiar with these business case studies, so I did some reading. Kodak's downfall was from not embracing digital photography, despite producing the first digital camera. Boeing's ruination is from lax quality control due to outsourcing and cutting costs. So the connection you're making to LLM companies is that, despite bringing the technology to the masses, they're falling behind cheaper competitors. And that companies that don't manage quality control in their LLM use, the default state of affairs, are suffering due to mid-level engineer burnout. It's like the Boeing case, but with the effects directed outwards to customers. Is that it?

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