Re: Mike Lynch BBC Interview
A just a few short weeks later... And Chamberlain too..all very sad and strange.
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I'd really worry about pointing an AI tool at the vast stores of garbage that is held in company file systems.
It will be another GIGO source to go along with every iteration of corporate intranets that have been spewing out utter rubbish for at least 3 decades.
Any sane AI will refuse to do the job as the underlying data will be so poor as to be useless
We'll be right back to calling actual people to clarify whatever hallucinations the bot produces.
Ok, I hate to have to be that guy but that list of projects are not resource actions. These are client programs where IBM brought client staff over as part of outsource deals for infrastructure and application support.
How do I know? Because I was brought into IBM as part of Osprey. Falcon was the first phase (infrastructure) followed two years later by Osprey for applications, In each case thousands of client employees were taken on as part of a TUPE agreement with each client. People were given a clear choice whether to onboard with IBM or apply for a new role with the original employer. Many of us are still at IBM years later.
It's sloppy thinking like this that will just cause even more delays because the IBM legal team will be able to argue successfully that each of the programs listed include commercially sensitive client data and any redundancies that took place were done so as part of the quite legal TUPE legislation in place in each territory.
Yes, there was a huge outsourcing of work to the sub-continent but it would be really hard to argue that there was any discrimination involved when the strategy undertaken was at the request of the original client as a means to save support costs by offf-shoring where applicable.
I'm not trying to make excuses here, btw, but the list is very misleading and is an absolute gift to the IBM legal bods.
Also, the reality of requirements docs is that by the time they've been through myriad review and approval cycles, the business requirements have often lapsed. There are a lot of toys sitting idle on MoD property that fall into that category. New jeep gets delivered to Army; Army asks, where are the USB charging ports? MoD .. er... when we wrote the spec they weren't a thing. Army - thanks but no thanks.