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I have worked for Samsung, elbeit in software division. Company culture is such that if a high level manager promised to deliver he will pressure his people to meet the deadline no matter if the product has flaws. And every step of the organisation will do the same. There is also little flow of bad information up the chain, every level will use multiple tactics to make impression everything is fine even if the building is on fire.

This has a lot to do with korean culture where keeping face and loyalty for his employer are two most important things in the life of a corporate drone.

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It's interesting that such company culture can achieve pretty amazing things, yet fail at very simple and obvious stuff.

This reminds me of a cool analogy: big companies behave like artifical general intelligence, very smart, but very unlike human intelligence.

And this, I think is how AI already has, and will gain, traction. Already lots of decision making in large companies is made with the aid of software tools.

The GP’s description sounds much more human ego driven than AI. There’s likely common use of gaslighting and lying in a company where impressions matter more than delivery.

when you say 'gain traction', can you clarify this a little?

Nothing deep, just how it will inch it’s way into our decision processes without us really thinking much of it.

That's a silicon valley term for "get used." They are saying that AI will get used to make corporate decisions. It comes from the startup scene where until your product is being used you're floundering on a frictionless surface.

get traction is definitely not a silicon valley, or product specific phrase.

I think he wanted to know how on earth 'AI' will solve this. People will claim AI can solve anything...

It seems Hyundai doesn’t suffer from these problems, at least now. Is this just a difference in the priorities and expectations of leadership there? FWIW their reliability is generally considered to be nearly on par with Toyota and Honda now

> where keeping face and loyalty for his employer are two most important things in the life of a corporate drone.

But surely, preventing a PR and product release disaster would count as being loyal to the company and helping the company to keep face.

This explains Bada and Samsung telling to the users that Bada 2.0 update was coming the next month.

You could call it a thousand yes's for every no.

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