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Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o
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Now, if there were justice in this world the entire command chain that devised and executed the plan would be fired and their CV would be forever tainted.
I hope all those workers remember that Ford threw them out the absolute first second they could. I’d be looking elsewhere immediately.
It just seems like we’re destroying everything for one “product” 🙄 that doesn’t even add any value to LITERALLY ANYTHING.
BrilliantBadgerSadly it seems their lesson learned is to rehire only until they can assimilate those experts knowledge more thoroughly, then cut them once again
Lather, rinse, repeat throughout industries
Not the feel good story the headline would hope you would have read
Cannot hate AI enough
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Surely, this means Ford will spend more time getting engineers to train AI and then they will fire them again.
Ford has engineers that make quality vehicles? Since when?
We will see. The point is that Large Language Models cannot produce anything that is not a copy of the work of someone else, while Ford engineers need to be creative to design new cars.
Probably some engineers to make a new vehicle platform-
Then instead of multiple teams turning the platform into multiple vehicles with multiple trim levels, you’ll have a single team that makes one vehicle or a few different classes of vehicle on a platform then the ‘AI’ does the rest.
To use VW as an example-
One senior engineering team at VW or Porsche designs the platform (ie. MQB)
One or few junior engineering team(s) at VW designs vehicles (ie. VW Golf, Jetta, Tiguan)
A few specialty vehicles get all-human treatment (ie. 911)
A marketing team at Audi, Skoda, etc will design their generational design language
The rest is ‘AI’ generated from the platform, vehicle type and desired design language.
Stripping VW Group of multiple engineering teams, mostly outside Germany.
We will see if they can achieve firing many engineers in the next round, but from what they openly say there that is their plan. It is unlikely they will ever get rid of all engineers, but using AI as an excuse, redundancies seems what they want. Not about the same level of expertise, but factory workers are widely used to train the LLMs that will replace them. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/24/indian-factory-workers-told-film-themselves-for-ai-robots
it makes you wonder what those ford guys are like; knowing that this is going to happen, but they rejoin ford anyways.
Who could have predicted that the slop machine would be sloppy
Surplus value can only be created by surplus labour. It is an objective structural imperative of Capitalism for employees to stay longer to create value for shareholders.
LLMs have the potential to shorten socially necessary labor time, but under capitalism, this potential is perverted into a means of intensifying exploitation and increasing alienation.
they should be pushing for higher wages
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