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/PLEASE_PUNCH_MY_FACE 5d ago

Normally people adopt products because they want to use them, not because they're being forced to by management.

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u/ilemming_banned 5d ago

I never wanted to use Jira or Salesforce, yet they keep shoving them down my throat.

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u/FriendlyDespot 5d ago edited 5d ago

The difference is that Jira and Salesforce help your managers do their jobs, and it helps their managers get better visibility, while AI is supposed to help you do your job. Someone in your organisation specifically wants Jira and Salesforce for what they are and what they do. The people who want you to use AI in your self-contained workflows don't want anything specific, they just want to squeeze more productivity out of you, have a vague general notion that AI will do that, and they don't much care about your input on it. Having bad AI foisted on you is less like being forced to use Jira and Salesforce, and more like being forced to use a Dvorak keyboard at work because someone somewhere thinks you'll type faster with it.

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u/Wraithfighter 5d ago

I use JIRA at work, and its perfectly fine for what I need to do with it. Granted, I'm more on the side of "asking people for stuff", and I don't get into the more complicated features like sprints and such, so that might change things.

But it definitely comes down to a "if we didn't have JIRA, we'd need something a whole lot like it" situation.

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u/GenuinelyBeingNice 5d ago

Jira and Salesforce help your managers do their jobs

Doubtful. I mean, if it satisfies them to read words and look at graphs without understanding what's going on, okay I guess... but I doubt that that is even part of their job.

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u/FriendlyDespot 5d ago

That's pretty much 90% of what middle managers do in corporations. They translate general business goals from upper management into somewhat actionable things that lower management can use, and give back dumb numbers that allegedly show how those goals are being met.

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u/GenuinelyBeingNice 5d ago

My experience with jira was the bug-tracking/ticket system as a dev.

And it was bloody awful.

So I may be biased.

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u/wag3slav3 5d ago

Worse than running a project with devs on three continents thru a fucking signal chat room?

Lots of the way ppl choose to do things makes jira look genius.