Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

@zn can we actually use it for work processes?

Most of us will have Co Pilot in the next 90 days. There is also the Tachyon playground. It’s actually pretty useful. Good place to practice prompt writing.

WF never gives you the tools. I bet they are still using SSIS everywhere and not Snowflake. Thank god I kept learning more and more outside before my layoff. WF is a crisis organization -- not a learning one. And @OP is correct paying lipstick to learning, by getting Pluralsight licenses, without providing access to the tools is not being a learning organization. For those out there that want to learn... here is a chatGPT prompt Give me a comprehensive, integrated history of software development methodologies and practices — including structured methods (like SA/SD, Information Engineering, CASE tools), object-oriented approaches (OOAD, UML, RUP), Agile and DevOps movements, and modern practices like TDD, BDD (Cucumber), and design/operations transformations. Clearly differentiate between methods and artifacts, and explain how AI tools will influence each stage of design, implementation, operations, and maintenance in the future. Include key figures like James Martin, Ed Yourdon, Ivar Jacobson, and others, and show how everything connects over time."Give me a comprehensive, integrated history of software development methodologies and practices — including structured methods (like SA/SD, Information Engineering, CASE tools), object-oriented approaches (OOAD, UML, RUP), Agile and DevOps movements, and modern practices like TDD, BDD (Cucumber), and design/operations transformations. Clearly differentiate between methods and artifacts, and explain how AI tools will influence each stage of design, implementation, operations, and maintenance in the future. Include key figures like James Martin, Ed Yourdon, Ivar Jacobson, and others, and show how everything connects over time." timeline https://chatgpt.com/s/m_68325f217bfc81918beb28e8b0f7ee31

Anyone can request access to Tachyon. Give it a shot.

AI will replace many HR roles beginning with recruiter.

@eh OP here. I seem to have stirred the hornets nest, and based on the number of likes/dislikes, it seems people are pretty divided.

I could have articulated my title better and assume many read the title without really reading/comprehending my post in its entirety. But, what I really mean is that our leadership keeps telling us to go learn about AI yadda yadda yadda, but aren't doing much to actually integrate it into our daily routines. So far it's been very limited. So, stop just hyping it and put your money where your mouth is and actually give us some access to it on a wide scale. Literally everone in the company should have access to at least a basic frontier model at this point.

Actually, AI is being under-hyped if anything. But it's more like the advent of the computer where it's a tool with many uses that will make people much more efficient which costs jobs but also creates jobs.

"Isn't TK the head of this rollout?"

Yes. Likely why we aren't getting anywhere. She's too busy sharing social media posts about her lemons.

Isn't TK the head of this rollout?

What are you doing, Charles? This is highly irregular.

Tell me how many tellers were and have been replaced with ATMs? The next generation of AI (and even ATMs) will do more of the same. Its common sense. White collar jobs are at risk. You need to keep learning. Its yet another example of abuse if WF is keeping you from being able to use the tools of today. This company has and is abusing you.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-10-22-gartner-unveils-top-predictions-for-it-organizations-and-users-in-2025-and-beyond

Yeah it's a shame we all can't be so smug about buying into so much hype that we're advocating for our own layoff. Unreal.

lol at this guy. I only regret that you are anonymous so I can't laugh at you on your way out the door with no plan. AI is already better than you and you don't even realize it.

The only problem HY wants AI to solve is how to eliminate the rest of their domestic workforce. Nothing else is especially important to them.

Who said that wasn't real? Or that OpenAI desperately trying to generate more hype and overheard to fish for VC somehow backs up their speculations? I'm sure the tulip bulb investors were busy planting at one time too.

Try to work on yourself and your weird, deflecting argumentation and maybe a glorified search engine won't be able to take your job.

The 400,000 blackwell GPU's going into a new data center in Texas should clue you in. And that's just for OpenAI. There are countless other large-scale infrastructure and energy projects in the works around the globe with hundreds of billions being invested. But yeah, not real I guess.

I actually want the tools here at WF, even if it means displacing the denialists as a result.

The more the AI evangelist reveals about the contradictions in his apocalyptic thought process, the more convinced I am that he is indeed replaceable by his favorite hallucinating chatbot.

The boomers are the biggest ai koolaid drinkers of them all

Boomers eyes are so bad they can't see what's coming.

@af+1jvswkepw How does that make anyone bootlickers? I thought the out of touch execs were the ones "hyping" up ai? Do you even know what bootlicker means? 😂

The kind of people mindlessly worshipping the new hype tech of the day, and have to lean on it to even write a post online are the ones who will be replaced by it.

So let's get those AI tools at WF and layoff people and outsource even faster then. AI evangelists are fu--ing insane lol

"So WF should replace us with AI faster? And saying the opposite makes us bootlickers? Jesus, take your meds."

No, fool, I'm saying it's inevitable and you need to know how to 10x your productivity with it, which we can't do if we don't have access. Those will be the employable people. Those who have access to AI tools, and eventually agents to manage, will be employed.

On top of that, on the whole, WF will fall way behind, layoff more people, and you'll be sc--wed because you are still manually updating your precious SharePoint site, or antiquated monolithic code base that AI will soon be able to interpret and refactor in a matter of days or hours. Skills that are quickly becoming obsolete and no longer marketable.

The way they are so prevented behind the firewall is absolute hypocrisy and paranoia. Why not disable Google and YouTube while you’re at it?

So WF should replace us with AI faster? And saying the opposite makes us bootlickers? Jesus, take your meds.

I see the bootlickers are out in force today. OP is right, and all the people laughing at this will likely be first in the unemployment line. AI is going to take your job soon and WF will not stay competitive without it.

What good does using a personal laptop do me if I can't integrate it into my daily work routine?

What good does knowing about AI and hyping it up do when we don't have the ability to use it?

It's like telling your employees to go learn a new skill and mentioning it every townhall (hype) and not doing much to provide the technology.

Imagine telling your workers they need to buy and maintain their own tools and equipment to do business. Oh, wait...

Lol 😂

do you have a personal laptop? Please get one if not. All of the AIs are free. Its time to develop your own "self". Don't rely on WF mother for your tech. You have your own smart phone don't you?

Honey, where are my pants??

In AI's defense, it would at least hallucinate a title that didn't mean the exact opposite of the body of the post.

How did banks function without AI?! We'll be left in the dust with this AI gap!

lol this site

You first, OP