How to handle leadership demanding AI for everything
Senior leaders push for rushed, poorly thought-out AI implementations under the assumption that the technology is a magical, instant fix for all business problems. This relentless pressure makes it impossible to build stable product roadmaps and leaves teams fielding unrealistic demands that ignore technical realities.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1remind clients they won't miss the boat because it is still being builtDid this help you?
- 2updating resume and planning to quit or find a new jobDid this help you?
- 3using malicious compliance by letting the system fail and blaming leadershipDid this help you?
- 4using AI to generate risk assessment memosDid this help you?
- 5pushing back by suggesting AI be used only for low-hanging fruit to manage riskDid this help you?
- 6Becoming the person who rolls out the technology despite the issuesDid this help you?
- 7Explaining to C-suites that they cannot have unlimited capabilities without the absurd costsDid this help you?
- 8Using AI quietly for smaller scripts and tasks to improve processes while managing leadershipDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“the executive has now bought into that idea and wants to make that happen.”source ↗
“the thing is, i am the accounting department. it is a team of me, myself, and i.”source ↗
“now with this idea of AI doing all of that for accounting, the possibility of getting any human assistance is no longer of appetite.”source ↗
“in addition, i will become responsible for teaching AI how to perform month-end and financial reporting such that i am basically writing out my own job.”source ↗
“I’ve been making a living off the platform for ten years but AI/Salesforce CSG is getting in the way with Sr leadership. I can’t make roadmaps. AI threatens to replace the bullshit my team has built and maintained its fking annoying.”source ↗
“I’m so tired of leadership wanting everything with AI, regardless of whether it’s well done or not. Everyone seems to think that AI will magically fix all of their problems and they need it implemented every which way and they need it done now and it’s not that hard so why don’t you have it done already?”source ↗
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