Kani

Technology solution lover, IT professional, father

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I'm pretty sure everyone at my company saw this article and now they all think we're in an AI crisis.

We're not in an AI crisis. We use Claude to summarize Slack threads.

But here's what's actually interesting: this whole panic reveals something nobody wants to admit.

Every company in America has been bullshitting about their "AI strategy" for two years.

We all saw the hype. We all knew we had to say something. So we rebranded our existing automation as "AI-powered" and called it a day.

My company isn't special. We're all doing the same thing.

The problem is now the executives actually believe their own bullshit. They think we have "significant AI exposure" because they've been telling investors we're "AI-first."

I just got pulled into an emergency meeting. Six executives asking me to explain our "AI dependency matrix."

There is no AI dependency matrix.

There's Claude for meeting summaries, there's some sentiment analysis in our support tickets that came free with Zendesk, and there's whatever Gmail is doing when it autocompletes my sentences.

But I can't say that in a room full of people who told their boards we're "transforming the business through AI."

So I said we have "distributed AI touchpoints across multiple vendors with no single point of failure."

Which is technically true. We use a bunch of different services that all have AI features we mostly ignore.

The CFO asked if we should "hedge our AI exposure."

I have no idea what that means. Neither does he.

What am I going to do: nothing. Because in three weeks, Anthropic will say something reassuring, the stocks will recover, and everyone will forget this happened.

But I'll have documentation showing I recommended a "risk assessment" that mysteriously never got prioritized.

The funniest part is that half these executives probably don't even know what Anthropic is. They just saw "AI" and "crash" in the same headline.

We're all pretending. The whole industry is pretending.

And articles like this just remind everyone how fragile the pretending is.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@bradford_col Trapitos, cuidacoches. En algunos lugares llevan identificación que les da la municipalidad 🤷‍♂️

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@ClaroArgentina le hackearon el WhatsApp a un conocido y me están pidiendo que transfiera dinero a una cuenta de Claro Pay. Ustedes pueden hacer algo?

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@ClaroArgentina le hackearon el WhatsApp a una persona cercana y la cuenta a la cual me pide que transfiera dinero es de ClaroPay. Pueden hacer algo al respecto?

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@LATAM_ARG Perfecto! Gracias por ayudar. Resolví el problema.

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@LATAM_ARG no estoy pudiendo loguear a mi cuenta. Me acabo de registrar.

[Kani @javiercanillas]

Cada día me convenzo más de que mi elección presidencial fue acertada. Tráiganme una urna, lo vuelvo a votar otra vez. Este es el camino. #VLLC

[Ministerio de Desregulación @MinDesreg_Ar]

"TODOS SUS HABITANTES SON IGUALES ANTE LA LEY, Y ADMISIBLES EN LOS EMPLEOS SIN OTRA CONDICIÓN QUE LA IDONEIDAD” (ART. 16 CONSTITUCIÓN NACIONAL)

Tal como establece nuestra Constitución, todos los habitantes son iguales ante la ley y pueden acceder a empleos públicos bajo un único requisito: su capacidad.

En este sentido, el Ministro de Desregulación y Transformación del Estado, Federico Sturzenegger, junto al vocero presidencial Manuel Adorni, anunció en la conferencia de prensa el fin de los privilegios heredados en el sector público: los cargos ya no serán transferibles.

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@MaraCapdevila4 Lo mismo con el exceso de bebidas gaseosas. He salido de mis adicciones (normales, aclaro) y preferiría que la persona que esté a mi lado no me “muestre el mal camino” continuamente.
Son elecciones personales, claramente.

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@alejorrojass La curse hace años, la promocioné con 10 🤓. Recibido 2004 de esa facultad y sede. Si querés te ayudo. Excelente materia. No se donde quedó el libro 🤦‍♂️

[Kani @javiercanillas]

#Apple sigue sin pedir activar #ECG en #Argentina https://t.co/9McwNI5SFj

[totocaputo @LuisCaputoAR]

A ninguno de los legisladores que votaron ayer la ley les preocupan realmente los jubilados.
De lo contrario hubieran presentado alguna ley el año pasado cuando las jubilaciones cayeron 30 pct en términos reales y en plena expansión del gasto público para ganar las elecciones.
En cambio, estaban todos callados.
Las jubilaciones con @JMilei recuperaron 5 pct en términos reales en solo 7 meses!
Es decir, la única intención de la oposicion es generar déficit fiscal para poder desestabilizar el programa económico.
Este gobierno vino a combatir justamente a esa gente, a la casta, a los mentirosos de siempre, a los que utilizan a la política para enriquecerse.
No nos vamos a mover un ápice de nuestro programa económico.
El equilibrio fiscal es innegociable
🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[🇦🇷 lucas llach 🇺🇦 @lucasllach]

Siento que se habla poco de que se acabaron los piquetes, un problema de 20 años. Como si hubiese sido un hecho de la naturaleza.

Todo mérito de dos minas con coraje, Bullrich que puso reglas y Pettovello que desintermedió planes. Concretito todo, sin mesas de diálogo.

[Kani @javiercanillas]

@eraserena Puedo fingir que cumplo en la misma fecha eh. No hay problema. Es más, arreglamos por privado 1 semana más de extensión 😜

[Ataque Futbolero @AtaqueFutbolero]

Qué hermoso homenaje de AFA para Ángel Di María, por favor.

“Argentina tiene un Ángel”. 🥹🇦�

[Diario La Capital @lacapital]

HASTA LA ETERNIDAD, FIDEO. 💙🤍💙

115' | Se detiene el partido. Ante una ovación, Ángel Di María se despide de la Selección argentina. 🥹

Todo el estadio de pie. La pared está rota, y el legado más vivo que nunca.👏🏆

[VforValentino @VdeValentino]

el que recupera / el que hace el gol / el que asiste.

Los mejores cambios de la historia del futbol

[Kani @javiercanillas]

Vamos campeones!!!!!

[Kani @javiercanillas]

Viva la Libertad! Viva la patria!!

[Argentina en Imágenes 🇦🇷 @Imagen_Arg]

"Si somos libres, todo nos sobra": General José de San Martín".
9 de julio, Día de la Independencia. ¡Viva la Patria! ¡Viva Argentina!
💙🤍💙