@GossiTheDog company CEO: 1st quarter was really good, we have a share buyback operation going on, I sell my shares and jump out with my golden parachute. Done.

@GossiTheDog an additional layer for advanced players: the automation they deployed treats their subsequent attempts at intervention as hostile

@GossiTheDog Good movie/book scenario.

@GossiTheDog This seems to be more of an actual case study than a tabletop scenario :D

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This is a consequence of most public companies being in the business of enhancing shareholder value.

They believe they aren't really in the business of making widgets or whatever but keeping share price on an upward trend.

Then it all collapses and the business fails because they belatedly discover that making widgets was actually what they should have been be doing all along 🫤🤷‍♂️

@GossiTheDog What do you mean ‘Tabletop scenario’?

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@GossiTheDog Now do one where they lay off the security staff and they get ransomwipered.

@GossiTheDog the company I used to work for, three years ago, recently added AI for their software support team. I only know this because the AI helpfully processed a test support case I raised eight years ago whilst I managed the support teams and sent me an email gloating about it, followed by a customer experience survey email. So I helpfully responded that it did an absolutely terrible job and cited several reasons why, with enough obtuse wording to help it learn from the experience.

@GossiTheDog 20yrs ago replace ‘AI and automation’ with ‘Offshore’

History is indeed a circle, even in Tech

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.Asking glorified Markov chains to check their own homework, what could possibly go wrong?

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Just gonna say, we did it before:

2010’s) Fire all the data Center and infrastructure guys, we are going to the cloud where only code exists!!

2000’s) Fire all the data centre and infrared guys, we are going to virtualization where a 1U rack server runs all 80 physical servers and contains TBs of data

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Do we really want to shed tears over these businesses?

@GossiTheDog wow that would be so fucked up, can you imagine

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@GossiTheDog Never happen. No millionaire CEO ready to bugger off to his mega-yacht would be so short sighted.

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No Notes. 📰

Don't tell this to the MBAs though. 🤫👂

@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes the "onion is no longer satire it's prediction"

but for "tabletops I don't want to be real but are going to become real"

@GossiTheDog Taking shortcuts and conning people is capitalism 101. With technology that doesn't really work, or doors start falling off airplanes mid-flight. This is what happens when all you have is a degree in business with no knowledge of what your business actually does.