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The OSS Sabotage Manual Became Corporate Best Practice

https://www.alephic.com/sabotage
18•cyb0rg0•3h ago

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cyb0rg0•3h ago
The most effective way to destroy an organization is to make it more bureaucratic.
theologan•2h ago
Matches my experience at megacorps.
stirfish•37m ago
>What if AI could fill all those gaps, handling mechanical compliance while we focus on the human work?

Idk boss, the perceptron said there weren't any bugs so I shipped it

andrewflnr•37m ago
Lede buried, naturally.

> AI is unlike any technology we've built before. Every previous tool required us to conform to its specifications, to translate our messy human processes into rigid machine logic. AI does the opposite. It adapts to us. It becomes what I call a "fuzzy interface"—capable of understanding intent rather than requiring perfect syntax, of bridging incompatible systems without forcing standardization.

> Think about what this means. All those bureaucratic layers, those translation tasks, those forms and processes, and approval chains—they exist because humans needed interfaces between other humans and systems. What if we didn't? What if AI could fill all those gaps, handling mechanical compliance while we focus on the human work?

Somehow I don't see this working out. The problem is communication between humans. AI "communication" makes a mockery of this process.

weikju•32m ago
To be expected from an AI written article by a company about AI
7e•23m ago
If anything AI requires more bureaucracy because it’s more unreliable than humans are. Overall, this post makes very little sense.
roenxi•19m ago
I've never seen any evidence that the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is actually effective as opposed to just propaganda and an effort to try something.

> During the Nazi occupation, Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the vice president of French automaker Citroën, understood this perfectly. He instructed his foremen...

You can see a huge gap in the one example and the "refer things to committees" approach that often gets quoted. Power sits with management, and if management want the job done badly they just tell their people to muck the job up. I doubt this fellow needed a guidebook or that its advice would be useful to him.

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The OSS Sabotage Manual Became Corporate Best Practice

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