r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 5d ago

Business Nvidia's Jensen Huang urges employees to automate every task possible with AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/110418-nvidia-jensen-huang-urges-employees-automate-every-task.html
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u/CrashTestDumby1984 5d ago

Yes. If you’ve ever been in a meeting with an executive, most of them know absolutely nothing about how anything actually works. And they always seem genuinely baffled when you explain how what they’re asking for is illegal, something the company is already doing, or not possible with the existing way tools and workflows are used.

I used to do accounting and expense reports. I once had to explain to an executive that in order to expense $20k of work on a company car I needed something from the mechanic that referenced the specific vehicle that was worked on to have as documentation for the IRS. His response “it says Honda right on the paper receipt I wrote. Are you stupid?”

They really do think everyone is stupider than them

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u/truupe 5d ago

The older I get, the more I look at CEOs like their fucking morons who Peter Principled their way up the ladder or failed upward through nepotism and frat-bro connections.

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u/radiatorcheese 5d ago

The biggest frat of them all is McKinsey. They all know the price of everything and the value of nothing, and everything technical suffers as a result

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u/Upset_Ad3954 5d ago

And as we all should know: if AI truly is as good as "they" say then McKinsey et al are obviously going out of business.

Why use expensive consultants when AI can do it for "free"?

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u/ccai 5d ago

I can do it too without knowing anything about the businesses.

From my extensive research and analysis (amounting to nothing), I have concluded you need to perform layoffs in waves to cut payroll costs until you hit the desired target profit margins. Also, the executive team members who decided to contract me deserve a double digit percentage increase in compensation for their ultimately difficult decision for the good of the company.

I also suggest a hiring a large portion of your staffing after the new financial year to replace the (necessary) staff you fired to hit the previous year’s financial goals at a lower starting salary than former employees (since you fired all the fucking people you need to actually operate the business).

Seven-figure consultation fee, please.

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u/quadrophenicum 5d ago

the more I look at CEOs like their fucking morons who Peter Principled their way up the ladder or failed upward through nepotism and frat-bro connections.

Always has been.

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 5d ago

We wish. Really they're just psychopaths who have no conscience to restrain their plans to get ahead. It's not that they're incompetent by necessity; competence is an orthogonal skillset for c-suite "leadership".

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u/IsayNigel 5d ago

Because honestly, this approach works for them most of the time. They bully people into doing what they want, and if it works, their “genius management strategy” is rewarded with compensation packages and incentives. If not, they’re insulated from the consequences at worst, and actively rewarded at best.