{"id":34970,"date":"2025-07-06T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=34970"},"modified":"2025-07-06T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:42:17","slug":"post-by-scott-adams-on-blaming-ai-for-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/post-by-scott-adams-on-blaming-ai-for-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Post by Scott Adams on Blaming AI for Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dilbert Filter says big companies will be blaming AI for their upcoming layoffs — without any evidence to back the claim — because that sounds more awesome than the alternatives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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This is the dirty secret of AI rn. <\/p>\n

Every large company has paid for something called \u201cAI\u201d so they can report up to the CEO and Board of Directors that they are \u201con top of it\u201d. <\/p>\n

But little is working in production or at hi quality. Chat and code gen are the two exceptions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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– The post reflects a growing skepticism about agentic AI systems, which are designed to act independently, as 2025 proofs of concept (POCs) in large corporations have underperformed, aligning with a 2024 Aisera study showing non-agentic rule-based systems struggle with complex tasks due to their rigid frameworks.<\/div>\n
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– McKinsey\u2019s involvement in outdated AI strategies, such as using GPT-3.5 for multi-agent systems, may explain the failures, highlighting a lag in adapting to newer, more capable models like GPT-4, as evidenced by AutoGPT\u2019s experimental success in task autonomy documented in a 2023 Medium article\"image2.png\"\"image3.jpeg\"\"image4.png\"\"image5.jpeg\"\"image6.jpeg\"\"image7.jpeg\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Scott Adams \u2066\u202a@ScottAdamsSays\u202c\u2069 The Dilbert Filter says big companies will be blaming AI for their upcoming layoffs — without any evidence to back the claim — because that sounds more awesome than the alternatives.   7\/6\/25, 6:41\u202fAM         Chamath Palihapitiya \u2066\u202a@chamath\u202c\u2069 This is the dirty secret of AI rn.  Every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}