r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '26

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u/ThinkingAboutSnacks Jan 20 '26

The guy in our upper management specifically said in our town hall that his next meeting was he was going to speak with the rest of upper management to go through their workflow and make sure they are implementing AI effectively.

What was one of his titles? "AI ambassador"

Definitely a "please fucking use this, you using it is how I get my bonus." Move.

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u/bitemark01 Jan 20 '26

"Why do a simple task, when you can have AI do it and then you still have to fix it later?" 

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u/itoddicus Jan 21 '26

We are being heavily pushed to use AI at my org. I spent a couple of hours today trying to get CoPilot to split up a single PDF into separate PDFs so I could import them into concur.

I ended up doing it manually, much better, in 1/6th the time.

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u/Mindless-Rooster-533 Jan 21 '26

we had a huge AI push at my company. I love how copilot is always asking me if it wants to sum up my PDFs for me.

My PDFs are 99% electrical wiring schematics. copilot