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points by sashank_1509 1 day ago | 0 comments

It is very weird that University of Kentucky is asking research administrators to incorporate AI in its workflow. It’s one thing for a Silicon Valley startup to ask SWE to use AI to maximize speed of development, its another thing entirely for a University insulated from competition, with a small admin staff, asking them to use AI for what exactly?

How much additional productivity do they think admin staff can crank out, and does that even matter. Does a 100X more productive research administrator mean the University will not be “left behind”, in this new world. I think we are officially reaching mass hysteria phases of the AI revolution.

[–] jimbokun 1 day ago

I imagine it was a blanket request for all university employees.

[–] sashank_1509 1 day ago

Even if this was true, it is very weird. When was the last time, institutions and bosses ask their employees to use a specific tool? It’s more often that employees fall in love with a tool and ask institutions to pay for it, here’s it’s the exact opposite

[–] Leherenn 1 day ago

Huh, all the time?

We were asked to migrate from Zoom to Teams recently. We have to use git and GitHub. Recently, there's a mandate to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. We have to use Windows or Mac, no Linux. We have to have the corporate VPN and antivirus running. And so on, and so on.

[–] pona-a 20 hours ago

Perhaps that's why office jobs seem less productive than ever, since the invention of the computer... The usual meritocracy of the workers choosing their own tools is upset by top-down planning by insufficiently experienced people, having to bear no consequences for their choices.

git was picked meritocratically, Teams was not...