Ask HN: Are employers getting the returns from AI?

5 pointsby daemon_90094 hours ago2 comments

laxmena4 hours ago
More I use AI tools, stronger I'm convinced that it's a force multiplier. I'm one of the strong advocates for adoption of AI at work.
But I'm also very skeptical about the narrative- that AI will simply replace workers.
The main issue is accountability. If an autonomous agent takes an incorrect action, who takes responsibility?
I recently had a first hand experience at work where an agent, designed to act on customer tickets, was authorized to suspend accounts upon request.
It incorrectly suspended an active, critical account essential to our revenue metrics. Now, the support engineer who deployed that agent is writing the postmortem/CoE.
These are some incidents why I believe AI will not "completely" replace human roles. When systems fail at scale, we still require an accountable human to analyze the failure, accept responsibility.
- daemon_90093 hours ago
  if we think, what is accountability? if a human would do a mistake, you would as an employer do two things: either teach him what not to do, or fire him. Same thing can be done with AI agents, if you decide to stay with the agent then teach it what not to do, this might not work 100% but to a certain level for non critical things it would work. Agents should ofc not be given consequential actions like deleting accounts at will. But the point is, once a mistake is done, it is done, be it human or an agent, you gotta teach or fire something. I don't think any other way to solve this problem
marcelbundle4 hours ago
>introduce AI to cut down on developers' salaries
>layoff developers
>AI credits are going up
Oh yeah it's all coming together
- daemon_90093 hours ago
  > >layoff developers for now we are not sure what is gonna happen. Big tech is surely reducing headcount to invest more in AI. but with recent downtime of github/AWS and them not blaming AI but humans, says a lot about that they will go to any extent to prove AI is bringing value enough to fire human engineers.
- marcelbundle4 hours ago
  At this point, you can't convince me that this is not, in fact, some shadow HR big brain play just to keep HR jobs with a constant layoff/rehiring cycle
  - fragmede3 hours ago
    HR jobs aren't gonna get automated by AI as well? AI is a force multiplier, now the HR department only needs to be half the size it was to support the same number of people.