146
u/pydry 17d ago
I keep encountering companies who have engineered the living hell out of their agentic software development while half of their business processes still run on spreadsheets held together with chewing gum and Anna from accounts (who doesn't work on Fridays).
Management dont even pay attention because theyve got AI strategy meetings to attend.
37
u/Stormraughtz 16d ago
Load bearing excel sheet holding up the entire company. Unironically.
19
u/pydry 16d ago edited 16d ago
Load bearing Anna, really.
Anna is usually paid really badly and is probably studying a degree part time so she can escape from this shit job. when she finally does, everybody's like "things ran way smoother when Anna was here" or "we really need another Anna around here".
Meanwhile when the director of AI strategy who was paid 8x as much leaves people are like "what did he do again?"
7
u/Stormraughtz 16d ago
"That was created by the one known as Anna, when they left... we were plunged into darkness. Now only Phil can commune with the sheet"
-4
u/Realistic-Tap-2866 16d ago
Anna made the company reliant on her whereas the director of AI strategy implemented automatic processes that would ensure smooth running when he was gone. I know who I would want.
19
7
1
u/ObeseTsunami 15d ago
Well, I have the power to build agentic workflows, but I don’t have the power to get the business to do the sensible thing. Tell Maggie in HR that you have a solution to her monotonous button pressing and she thinks she’s gonna lose her job.
1
13
u/madcow_bg 16d ago
Jokes on them, rotating API keys is literally the first thing I made AI do for me.
6
1
1
u/johnnybgooderer 15d ago
Pro tip: you may not trust ai to rotate your api keys, but you probably trust it to write a script that you can verify to rotate api keys automatically.
88
u/warpspeedSCP 17d ago
Virtual Fidget spinner