Canadian Conservatives are discussing how to emulate Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency north of the border should they win the upcoming federal election — and they think they can make cuts even more quickly than the Trump administration has.

Canadian Conservatives are discussing how to emulate Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency north of the border should they win the upcoming federal election — and they think they can make cuts even more quickly than the Trump administration has.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      I’ve found this position weak.

      AI is a tool. Yes, the government should find a way to make it accessible to government employees, but if it is a good tool you don’t have to force people to use it, they just naturally will use it because it makes their lives easier.

      Tech companies are also guilty of this wishful thinking — Shopify just came out saying employees should be 100x more productive with AI. Frankly that number is pure fantasy.

      (Forgive the X link) https://x.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514

      The things that make me more productive have always been having more ownership of decisions and committing to projects, and having tools to make my workflows easier — and I have been automating everything I can since I started working.

      AI is at best 30% improvement on boilerplate code completion. Deep research tools can save a few hours sifting through content, but the bottleneck is still me studying and deeply understanding a concept and AI won’t resolve that. That’s not a 10x multiplier though, it’s in that 30% range again.

      Even the latest AI agents are not super impressive to me, I can generally get the task done faster and more reliably.

    • laffytaffy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Didnt carney say he will essentially phase out positions once the workers naturally retire? Big difference from mass firings across the board, I’d say