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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What reason did he give?[/quote]

he just says things like 'she's not good'. He says that a lot about her and her deliverables.

[b]It's funny we recently showed him a deliverable that we had compiled almost wholly using claude cowork from direction he'd given in emails, messages and meetings and he said it was 'really bad'. [/b]

I asked him to sit with her and try to show her how to improve and admitted that I wasn't able to understand what she was doing wrong myself and he said 'she's just the wrong person for this job and we need to manage her out'.[/quote]

I don't even know what this means/how it is relevant. You used AI and the results were bad? Cool story. That has nothing to do with her or her work. You say she's an excellent performer, yet you want HIM to sit down with YOUR direct report to show her how to improve? Sounds like the problem is you, not her.

Surely you have KPIs, metrics, things you can track on her deliverables? [/quote]

op - you seem pretty mad about this for some reason but I'll explain.

We created a deliverable out of HIS directions and input. Not sure how familiar you are with these tools, but when your AI is integrated into your work apps you can pull transcripts from meetings, and emails, and messages that have been sent and then you have a record of what has been discussed. He said 'this document needs to reflect x, y and z'. She sent it back to him, and before I could share with him that it was a compilation of his own directives, when he thought it was her guidance, he said it was bad. [/quote]

This to me makes it clear that none of this is real.  On the off chance it isn’t, OP, you seem too personally invested in your boss being wrong about this, and working with your report to try to prove the boss is wrong using AI tools?  Well, I guess it’s a way to go.  It sounds to me, again if this is real, you have kind of a savior complex. Really, you have only a few choices:  1. Push the button on her as your boss directs; 2. Tell your boss that you won’t do it, you think he’s making a major mistake, and take the consequences of that, if you are a valued person your boss might listen; 3. Try to get her out of your group and into other groups that might value her more, as PP above helpfully suggested. But in any dispute where your boss thinks “x” and you think “y”, your boss’s boss is probably going to go with your boss, which is the right choice more often than it is the wrong one.  Your current approach will merely create an ambiguous documentary record that is likely to make you look bad without persuading anyone.[/quote]

op - to be clear we didnt use AI tools to 'make him look bad'. He had feedback on the deliverable that he expressed in written and verbal form. We used AI to consolidate his feedback and integrate it into the deliverable. That is what AI is for. He made himself look bad by saying that the pushes to the deliverable were 'bad' when in fact they were a direct reflection of his own feedback. [/quote]

DP. I think he sounds like a jerk, but just because his own thoughts were fed into AI doesn't mean what AI produced isn't slop. If he just wanted his emails and transcripts put into AI to spit out a report, he could have done that himself and not pay employees. Presumably he expected his employees to understand what he wanted and either produce it or if, using AI, properly refine it to his specifications.

I just don't think this is the flex you think it is. Your theory has an underlying assumption that if you put the right information into AI, that what AI produces accurately reflects what was put in. If I were you, I wouldn't use this example in the real world because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of AI and a lack of diligence on the part of the employee who produced the report.[/quote]

OP - I work in AI. I undestand AI very well. And I deeply understand how to use it in addition to human effort to create something that is a quality deliverable. You're correct that just relying on it alone is not a catch all. You'll just have to trust me that I used it correctly in this case. Or maybe I didn't, but if I didnt, [b]he should be able to articulate specifics rather than just using the word 'bad'.[/b] [/quote]

PP. Fair enough, and I do agree with the bolded. Seems to be an issue with your boss in general, lol![/quote]

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