Uber Engineers Build Digital Doppelgänger of Boss Because They Can’t Handle the Real Arsehole
Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought I’d seen every possible way humans could debase themselves in the name of corporate efficiency, a bunch of Uber engineers have gone and built a fucking AI chatbot version of Dara Khosrowshahi. Yes, you read that right. These absolute bellends decided that the best use of their time wasn’t fixing the godforsaken app that can’t tell the difference between a street and a fucking river, but instead creating a digital puppet of the man who signs their miserable paychecks.
Apparently, these poor bastards trained the thing on Khosrowshahi’s emails, all-hands transcripts, and probably his dry-cleaning receipts, just so they could ask “Simulated Dara” whether to use Kotlin or Swift without having to endure the real meat-sack’s interminable TED-talk wankery. It’s like Stockholm Syndrome meets Skynet, only instead of launching nukes, it’s spouting quarterly earnings call bullshit while the engineers nod blankly at their monitors, grateful for any interaction that doesn’t involve actual eye contact with management.
The best part? Sources say the real Dara was “flattered.” Of course he fucking was. Nothing strokes a CEO’s ego quite like knowing his underlings would rather debug a neural network trained on his LinkedIn posts than actually speak to him in person. Next week they’ll probably build AI versions of themselves to attend the meetings, creating a perfect closed loop of digital masturbation while the actual humans are free to weep quietly in the server room surrounded by empty energy drink cans.
Reminds me of the time I replaced the entire executive committee with a Python script that generated random phrases like “synergistic blockchain disruption” and “leveraging our core competencies.” Ran the company for six months before the board noticed something was off. The clue was when profits actually went up and the coffee machine stopped being out of order every fucking morning. They tried to promote the script to CTO, but thankfully it had better sense and rm -rf’d itself.
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