@24k As someone that uses AI in anger every single day, professionally and personally, If I got laid off and it was because I didn't meet some MD's arbitrary token burning quota I would be jumping for joy at getting paid to leave a sinking ship long before the rats had started running for the exits.
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My name is John Doe and I'm a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. I force my direct reports to use AI, and I have a telemetry dashboard in how much they use it. If they don't, I will terminate them in the next RIF.
The employees aren't skilled enough to innovate and use AI. The real software engineers are working for start-ups or other well-paid places, not MS.
People don't apply it where it would be most useful - things like helping automate migrations to new versions of things - and use it everywhere the details actually matter. Many of the best people have effectively stopped doing their job, and are instead laundering the inactivity via AI by pushing the work onto their peers indirectly. These people have also very rapidly damaged their own reputations in the org. Very few real productivity gains to be seen. Quality has not meaningfully increased.
Ai is mostly shaping up to be a failure because the software just isnt smart enough. Non AI automation programs work better because they are more controlled and easier to diagnose.
AI right now is the wild west. Even with proper prompting AI can go off the rails. I am not too concerned currently.
Adoption is super fast and expectations are crady due to AI. Not sure why is too much pressure