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But but but ... The agents of our new $500M investment in AgenticAI should handle being the glue ... Right?

Right?

Everything a company values should be documented in a way that new hires can easily learn.

When a corporation talks about "values" though, they often don't include "preservation and sharing of comprehensive knowledge" as one of them.

And then they lay people off, bring in contractors, or outsource knowledge based operations, and wonder why nobody knows what's going on.

AI is going to be like that. People will only operate at the highest levels. You know, the levels where they push a button and expect everything to be automatically how they assume it should be.

these people are vital — but — why did he not document all these little processes he took on? that was part of his job, too.

I can't know, of course, but often the answer is, the place he worked for didn't allow for him to do that effectively.

It's one of the reason that offshoring / outsourcing jobs to dramatically underskilled + underpaid resources from poorer countries has caused so much havoc in IT circles over the years.

Bosses just thought the glue people could perform total KT (knowledge transfer) by writing everything down in multiple binders.

They never realized it's the WHY that matters about an operation / process / task at least 50% more than the WHAT.

(Hence my handle.) 😎

It is called the linchpin effect. 💡 ✅ #linchpineffect

debliu.substack.com/p/the-impo…

The Importance of Linchpins, and Why You Should Become One

How being a critical connector creates new opportunities for you and others

^{Deb Liu (Perspectives)}

reading more of the likes of your good self and @molly0xfff and @pluralistic, for example, I am belatedly beginning to understand that the big lads don't actually care if the business works or not.

The money doesn't come from the productivity or output or generation of the business, it comes from *promises*, which investors swallow like prophecy and strawberry wine. The business is slow or clunky or ugly? Who gives a fuck; we're high on grifty speculation, you simpletons.

Many companies have already done this and many of them are now regretting it and scrambling to "fix" the slop that's been pushed to production.

within the past couple months or so I've been getting mails and messages from contacts on behalf of other clients about coming in to refactor or just straight up fix code, apps, etc that were pushed to production by AI Slop and "vibe coders". The tech debt is insane. It's gotten so bad I've been having to refer them to other devs who are looking for work.

I remember doing this a few years ago when companies were just offshoring to India but it was no where near as bad as it is now.

IT has many a tale of Project Leads who grease the wheel of progress yet get fired after every "on time, on budget" success.

On paper, they aren't seen as "productive" (fewer code commits) but they keep teams on task without creating anger, smooth over interpersonal friction, and inject realistic time management.

No death marches. No kids in rehab. No divorces. No mental or health crises. Undramatic function.

Such people are seen as disposable even while creating big revenue.

It feels like when this crash finally happens (ugh, could it hurry up and do so already?) it's going to come down HARD.

Hopefully the surviving companies will offer some very generous raises to the people they stupidly fired before because those people will deserve it to clean up the mess.

The next hype will be GlueAI. It will figure out what all of your AI systems are doing, generate code to interface between the systems, and solve all problems.

Then GlueAI 2.0 will be released to fix the bugs.

It will be turtles all of the way down.

#AI #Insanty

Dig 'em Up!: Forty Famous “Natural Deaths,” or Assassinations by Poison?

amazon.com/Dig-Up-Famous-Natur…

For as long as man has vied for dominance over his fellow man, the killing of political rivals or upstarts has been standard operating procedure. Often, the assassination comes in a spectacularly overt form -- such as a stabbing, a shooting, or a hurled bomb. Notwithstanding some of the childishly naive explanations implicating, in certain cases, a "crazed lone gunman,"