One in the crowd

Android developer, gamer, just random dude

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[ivan🇺🇦🕷️🦦 @I_Van7]

лучший ролик с этих выборов пока

[One in the crowd @oitc]

@veryayskiy Monstrous Reactive Rollercoaster

[One in the crowd @oitc]

@veryayskiy Sounds like a style of specific type of videos

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Ура 🥳🌟🎄

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Party like it is 1500

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Сериал по Скотту Пилигриму оказался огромным разочарованием. Печаль.

[One in the crowd @oitc]

"Убийца" Финчера оказался очень слабым. А ведь такой многообещающий трейлер был.

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Очень крутое видео от Редакции про расстрел Белого Дома. Рекомендую https://t.co/uBB8cIFU0Q

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Сначала было смешно смотреть интервью Цыгановых Дудю, а потом стало очень грустно и даже страшно. Безумные люди.

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Спустя 8 месяцев ворвался в разработку. Ну как ворвался, так: общаемся про архитектуру, грумим спринты, делаем PRы. Хорошо быть снова при деле!

[One in the crowd @oitc]

@veryayskiy @icebearlabs It is weird. It just doesn't make sense

[One in the crowd @oitc]

@veryayskiy @icebearlabs You should check how people in Greece have their coffee literally for hours. But no laptops, only chat with each other))

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Ездил за ВНЖ как настоящий местный на велосипеде под дождем. За такое можно было бы пластик и на 2 года выдать :)

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Как так вышло, что "получать уведомления от госуслуг" и "получать какой-то спам" это одно и тоже?

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Такой день

[One in the crowd @oitc]

@pavel_osminin Спасибо, Паша!

[One in the crowd @oitc]

Никто не хочет злить Зелёную Сову. Даже Лили