Fuck AI

I second your disdain. It's no better from the inside either. A major company i used to work for took their old but functional system and replaced it with workday/worklife. It broke everything for months and was implemented 6 years later than scheduled.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity

Probably single sign-on can be configured per customer or it uses workday as the default.

Either way, prospects should be able to use one login for applications, they haven't been hired by the company so the company doesn't need to manage that user.

It's telling the wording - continue to work on AI while rigorously reviewing ROI of other initiatives. Shouldn't AI be rigorously evaluated? Too much money in slopping out poor quality shit while laying people off in any company, that's why companies are putting NOS on the AI bandwagon. You don't even have to calculate it, you just know LLM slop will be cheaper than humans.

Until, of course it isn't. When you break trust, and there are impactful catastrophes, or just regular incompetence...suddenly AI will lose its star status of "this will get me my annual bonus or stock options" status and be relegated to its actually helpful use cases like parsing medical insurance claim denial statements. Then they'll be hiring humans back--and that cycle may not take long. Once AI is demoted, people who actually want to make it work instead of getting paid will likely improve it a good deal, but the charlatans will have made theirs by that point. And that's always the point in the cycle to get big spend from gullible decision-makers.

When the US govt and heads of most companies are old, white men who do not understand the tech implications for their product, and won't be around in 30 years to care if it's still marketable and sustainable, I guess it makes sense for them economically to just get paid this quarter.

Shut up, you'll spook the shareholders.

Short-term profits are the only profits.