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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This also contributes to the impression that AI can do the jobs of experts. To be successful, a product has to work well and appeal to users. But the AI's idea only needs to pass the inspection of a few middle-aged white guys. So the AI's "pass rate" is high, and the team's pass rate is low.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Managers don't understand that these are actually 2 different tests; to them it is undifferentiated "work." This gets exponentially worse up the chain; until the CEO has no clue what the company does. Abstracted from context, this creates the impression of a competent AI and incompetent employees.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Of course, managers who try to replace their team with AI quickly find that it is completely incapable of passing the same test, for three reasons. One is that AI can *do tasks* but expertise is not just a string of tasks. Two is hallucination; the tasks it does do, it doesn't do well.

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