So they fired the executives responsible, right?

Seems like we’re entering the “find out” phase…

According to Poon, some of the company’s most experienced personnel left before all of their accumulated knowledge could be fully transferred into Ford’s automated systems. That necessitated bringing back some of those employees to retrain those systems...

See this, nothing was learned by these slop-shits. Their take away wasn't humans-with-experience > than slop-bots. It was, unfortunately, 'we didn't extract enough knowledge from the humans that helped build our company before tossing as many humans away as possible. Once we've extracted enough, we'll try again.'

Fuck you poon and co.

Hopefully those employees said, "Sure, I'll come back, but my salary requirement is 50% more than you were paying me."

That’s such a dumb fucking quote. Imagine being a stockholder and reading that sentence spouted from someone at the helm of the company.

Kick rocks, wet socks.

Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product

That's so low IQ, like saying "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing a lawn mower and adjust the landscaping requirements, that that would produce a high quality lawn."

I've been using an LLM for programming for last 6mo and it needs constant babysitting. It's basically something that just does the most straightforward thing without consideration of nuance, maintainability or whether to actually split into a module. This is very much not surprising.

So the VP quit or was right fired, right? Right?

I hope they had to double their previous salaries...

And they're going to fire Charles Poon for fucking this up, right?

AI is a tool not an employee.

The Broligarch's are reading the wrong philosophers. If they read Polanyi they would know that you can't build a tacit knowledge system based on explicit knowledge. Its summed up in the pithy "we know more than we can tell". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polanyi%27s_paradox

• Yes sir I can fix those, I only charge 10.000 euros / hour.

“would produce a high-quality product,”

Ai couldn’t do it. Real engineers can. However C suite gonna rebute high quality in favour of service and product that fleeces the most of the buyer.

VP should be fired.

just goes to show, mid-level lackeys will do anything for Poon

Very normal story at this point. Managers incompetently think AI will magically replace employees, they lay off employees, it doesn't work, they rehire the employees.

I hope they negotiated their new salary very strongly

I assume someone got a big bonus for that decision and now someone (maybe even the same person) gets a big bonus for the decision to rehire.

Well he's being honest in admitting his mistake. In 20 years in the corporate world I've never seen an exec do that.

"Mistakenly"? More like delusionally. The shortcomings of current AI systems are hardly a secret. Anyone who spent a few minutes getting informed would be aware of those.

In addition, the automaker underestimated the value of the institutional knowledge accumulated by its more veteran engineers who had worked through multiple vehicle-development cycles. And this combination of phenomena led to a drop in quality in Ford’s vehicles.

Years ago I worked at an ISP tgat went through a merger. They decided they were going to outsource customer service to another company.

We all got nice severances and 3 months prior notice where we basically didn't work because all calls were being routed to the new call center and we were just backup. What a great 3 months. We had card tourneys, spun up the companies old game servers and ran minecraft (alpha) on them, lots of fun.

Get laid off, fast forward a year and the outsource company has taken an 86% approval ratimg down to the low 30s.

They hired a lot of us back to completely rebuild the service department. I was tier 1 and got a 76% raise. I imagine others got better.

Hoooo boy, make sure you never buy a Ford again.