Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts Workday has confirmed that AI did indeed cost the job of colleagues that are leaving the organization following a restructuring plan cooked up by executive head chef Carl Eschenbach. How so? The money the org expects to save will be ploughed into its Agent System of Record platform. The HR and finance SaaS application biz said …
Perhaps Workday can stop kicking about with AI and employ some people who give a rats end about how the user interface works for employees of its corporate customers. Not just some thrown together rubbish that would confuse anyone. Such as putting a button that ends the workflow long before the workflow should end in direct line of sight at the bottom of the screen and the button to go to the next logical step at the top of the screen where you wouldn’t look for it. And no “are you sure” dialogue and no ability to undo the big mistake you’ve just made.
Total Ratners.
You just don't understand disruptive design clearly.
We also have internal tools developed by our apparently wonderous dev teams that follow highly detailed specifications determined by the UX team which are released to fanfare and look like the interface was fired at the screen with a shotgun, the English written by a dislexic 5yr old and the workflow copied from a wet market butcher in Wuhan.
Alignment seems to be a dirty word and QA is something for rank amateurs.
Suffice it to say that criticism of these fantabulous new toys is considered heresy by the managment team.
Went over with a manager once to a user to get their response from testing. I took notes, said we'll look at it and make chances so it works how the users want it to. As we walked back the manager said to me "She was quite negative. Pointing out all the issues". I had to explain to the idiot that's what testing is all about, you listen to their concerns and change them, not just dismissed them as "being negative".
I left not long after and from what I heard, they didn't listen to what users wanted or needed.
More subscriptions, fewer low-rung meatbags (tending toward zero) leeching off those subscriptions seems to be the underlying jist. There's some bollocks lurking behind that about managing the risk landscape of multiple vendors different AI agents. A pile of corporate buzzword bingo, and it probably won't work well but who cares.
Hiring is down, and folks are cutting subscription services. So he's showing how you can continue to pay for their product by example. Quite in character for their (workday's) war on employees... I mean, I spend easily 5x-10x on keeping up with their systems vs what we had before. But hey,they were cheaper on the P.O.
An LLM agent is literally someone writing a pargraph as a system prompt and consistently prepending it before any inputs.
That's it
So in a paragraph workdays best and brightest came up with a pargraph
To replace every worker
Please highlight the simplicity of LLM agents in the future so that people realize what these corporate gluttons are really doing.
If you need an example of agentic workflows use ollama and prepend a system prompt to your message, congrats you made an agent in 5 minutes
Something that can be done by anyone in 5 minutes is not IP or even something worth an NDA it's a hussle at best a hoax and at worst a con.
Bollocks...
Any savings will go towards a new corporate jet/mega yacht or some expensive real estate under the guide of 'a place to meet clients.
Very soon these corps will be nothing more than the C-Suite and the janitors. Their fancy offices will be rented by the day/hour.
How am I coming up with that idea?
Just look at what the President elongated muskrat and his stooge, Donald Rumpsteak.
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