SAP Exec: Get Ready to Be Fired Because of AI – A key executive at Europe’s biggest software company is sending a clear message: your job can and will be done with AI.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sap-cfo-ai-make-more-software-fewer-people-2025-9
SAP Exec: Get Ready to Be Fired Because of AI – A key executive at Europe’s biggest software company is sending a clear message: your job can and will be done with AI.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sap-cfo-ai-make-more-software-fewer-people-2025-9
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For SAP this might hold true, they should be able to replace every single one of their developers with AI as their products can’t get any worse…..
The rich won’t be figuring out how to give us UBI, they are going to figure out how to eliminate us completely.
He says that, but what I hear is that I don’t need SAP since I have AI.
Big executive is the easiest to automate. Setup a email address, manager send their report there, AI read it and gives board of director their quarterly review so they can make good decision (that will not be good decisions because they not there for growing a company but pillaging it). There, I saved millions in salary.
Why do we need executives if a manager can just feed data to an AI and ask it questions?
Hot take, this is posturing and the AI bubble will pop in 2-4 years
journalists reporting on this should ask basic questions like “which jobs will be replaced?” but they just uncritically repeat everything executives say as fact
CEOs could all actually be replaced with AI like now, I don’t think that tracks across most labor.
How is AI going to get my boss coffee and clean up his food trash? And understand emails like get me the thing with the thing based on that guy Bob. Or print 2,000 pages of documents and ensemble them for notebooks? Or talk to clients in person? or deal with all of their (clients and lawyers) constant need for attention? Or keep them from getting a $10K fine for using AI to write their crap and making up citations?
Actually, AI can have my job.
I’m not sure “AI will mean you’ll be jobless within five years” is the most effective marketing strategy.
They are miscalculating that people are end users. AI can take all the jobs, but if people are out of work, no one is going to buy or use these services. It will be performative art!
The irony is high level execs and CEOs are probably the best jobs to replace with AI rather than the bottom jobs that are cheaper, and most require skills AI can’t have, or won’t for a while.
But those over priced high level jobs. Their skills absolutely can be replaced with an algorithm.
Get ready to be reminded what happens to the elite when a populous has nothing remaining to lose
Hope he enjoys his job going as well as the bedrock of the entire world economy is human labor. No human labor, no money, and with no money there’s no need for SAP to track goods no one can afford.
These executives are morons that can’t see that their products lifeblood is the middle class and above who can afford to buy all these products. You get rid of these jobs, no one can afford the goods that support all these products the SAP’s, Oracles, and Salesforce rely on to justify their existence.
I can’t wait to see how executives think an economy can work when AI makes it so no one has money to spend on their products
Fucking parasites
His job is the primary one that could be replaced by AI.
Yeah…
I mean, sure… They’re right and all…
But who is going to buy the product?
I have had the misfortune of working with AI “tools” the past few years in my industry. So far, they have made life immensely difficult. Unending errors, mistakes, and more. The costs have been enormous.
Also, SAP saying that AI is going to replace people? Oh buddy… I would be more worried about SAP being replaced by a retarded monkey. Every implementation I have been part of that involved SAP has been an unmitigated clusterfuck. Years and years of extremely expensive consultants, customization, crappy documentation and more. Just a damned mess.
I don’t know what jobs can be replaced by AI. The more I work with this shit the less I understand.
I’m part of a small company and we do software – some of it uses AI.
My CFO gave me a mandate to at least start exploring the conversion of some parts of the workforce to AI because it’ll cut costs.
We benchmarked a bunch of AI solutions and none of them passed muster.
The most promising seems to be using AI to fully automate unit testing, but then once in a while it’ll hallucinate and throw a bunch of unrelated shit that’s got nothing to do with the method it’s testing. So we built some guidelines and did some prompt engineering around it but guess what? Still happens.
We also tried using AI to replace blackduck scans and do automated penetration tests. Also not great results. Sometimes it does it very well. Sometimes it fucks up. Sometimes it identifies a “vulnerability” that just straight up completely science fiction. Sometimes it’ll identify shit in previous reports that don’t exist and never existed.
I tried implementing a RAG with a vector DB to automate logging and troubleshooting. Basically hooked up a custom RAG to Kibana to parse logs in real time and identify problems. Seemed to work relatively well so I hooked it up into our ops and devops notification system. We started getting crazy alerts for stuff that were basically non-issues because the AI agent was matching patterns against hallucinations.
At this point I don’t really know if it’s a “me” problem or I’m just not spending enough effort into AI integration but right now I wouldn’t trust the AI with replacing any able bodied developer – not even interns.
Also – I realize there are premium enterprise solutions for these things that exist, and I’ve tried quite a number of them – but the most reliable ones like cursor just seemed to be complementary tools to actual devs and are not designed to replace them.
Others are so costly that I’m not saving anything even if they could replace actual devs (which none of them can).
He’s a CFO.
He might even know a lot about software (maybe) but hiring, managing and sizing sw engineering teams is emphatically NOT his job.
They gave him a platform and he liked the spotlight.
Otherwise, he’s just a random guy making a prediction on AI without knowing what AI will become in the next few years. Not even the AI researchers building AI get these predictions right.
Half of them will get it right, by chance, and they will he worshipped as geniuses. Half of them will get it wrong, and nobody will remember they made a wrong prediction.
“Fooled by Randomness” explained it really well.
can the fucking ceo be replaced with ai? just fire a bunch of people, say stupid shit, and yell no into a telephone.
Executives using the threat of AI to try to keep the masses in line. That’s why there’s a new announcement “AI taking your jobs” almost daily. Meinwhile, AI out here making up facts, making shitty art and video, and dumping out code that looks like a highschooler wrote it. Ya ok.
Lmao what do all these billionaires think is going to happen when everyone loses their jobs, cant pay their bills and has nothing but free time on their hands?
Theyre certainly not going to sit at home and play Mario… his cousin, however…
There is no such thing as a pointless job. Every task serves someone else, in one way or another. Taking away the worker takes away another companies customer, and it falls like dominos.
I swear, these technofeudalist psychopaths with delusions of crowns will be eating their feet when the first gallows of the 21st century gets built.
Plot twist, people create new companies that employ people to compete with them and destroy that company.
* Step 1: Announce layoffs due to AI and pump stocks
* Step 2: Outsource the actual jobs
* Step 3: Claim profitability by offsetting operational costs with abysmal sales
* Step 4: Golden parachute
* Step 5: Hire a new CEO
* Step 6: Rehire everyone
* Step 7: Find a new scapegoat
* Step 8: Repeat
Narrator: Not as easily as the business bros think.
Seriously, anyone in a high level business-function job (IE not technical) tends to believe this specifically because they aren’t technical, and also because they are morons. Once you get to a certain level in a company, your job is to write emails and sit in meetings. They see AI can help them write emails and think it can replace workers because they are morons/assholes.
AI in its current state is helpful for most jobs, but for the most easily automation-possible jobs, the slop they replace it with is incredibly easy to pick out, and people are prejudiced against it.
These decisions will backfire spectacularly, and I can’t wait for all these empty suits to get fucked by it.
I like how these execs salivate over saving money through replacing people with AI, but they’re all too stupid to understand that their companies will cease to exist when AI reaches that point.
Especially SaaS, service, and consulting companies. Like, your clients are just going to use AI themselves and cut you out of the equation.
Why use a shitty vendor product when you can have AI develop your own version for a fraction of the cost?
The CEO should be looking over his shoulder. AI can easily do his job.
CEO’s think all your jobs can be done by AI because *their job* would be done better by AI.
Anyone who has attempted to use AI in a technical and detailed role where the outputs actually matter knows that while AI may be able to assist, it’s not going to produce anything useful without a human supervising it.
Why would I need SAP when an AI could do it for me?
And i’m not worried an hallucinating text generator is going to take over the physical aspect of my job.
Oh cool. So if machines are doing the jobs we all get UBI now, right?
Right?
Why are these articles being posted? What’s the thing behind the thing?
I’m going to laugh my ass off when AI can do CEO jobs and they all get fired. It will be such sweet irony when the CEO is legally required to fire themself because it’s their fiduciary responsibility to be fired to make way for the AI to increase share holder value. My ass, it will have been laughed off.
But isn’t modern AI just advanced language models? We have had AI for decades, but the new thing now is advanced language models that’s really good with language and text, but it doesn’t mean that it’s intelligent in any meaningful way.
If you’re an expert in anything, talk to any AI about it. You will quickly learn how inept they are at actual intelligence. Then you realize it must be wrong about everything else. We don’t have artificial intelligence, we have really good language guessers.
Get ready for AI to be unsustainable due to the amount of energy and water it requires.
This from the software company who still doesnt know there‘s a higher resolution than 1024×768 pixels…
SAP is so brutal to work with.
It is so slow, and unintuitive.
They have so much engineering to do, how they figure it would be smart to cut down on people rather than trying to use AI to maximize productivity is wild to me.
wait 1 year. he will be begging for developer to come back and work for him
Laws may need to implemented to ensure AI can only assist a person in their role, not replace them. Make it illegal to replace staff with AI.
I’m honestly surprised SAP even still have a business as of 2025.
I won’t be surprised if AI ends up replacing their whole business niche they have in corporate bloatware.