record numbers of “how do i connect to localhost from my friend’s laptop” and useless dashboards your devs were too busy to make, tho
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SHOCKING! Economically critical demographic of CEOs FAIL reverse turing test! You'll never guess who...
The AI revolution has achieved something truly unprecedented: billions in spending, endless executive keynotes, and no measurable payoff for most businesses. Apparently the killer app was convincing CEOs to transfer their budgets to seven tech companies: »Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493.«
I see this as a potentially GOOD thing. All those companies who dove in headfirst are gonna come out of it significantly weakened, while those wise enough to take a more measured approach will get the opportunity to take the leadership positions they probably deserve (at least more than those others). If nothing else, there might be more competition after all this.
ai has also made some people way more productive and automated some really valuable things
the entire industry hasn't quite been one-guyed as yet. the numbers definitely don't match the epic valuations however
Outside Nvidia. The shovel users are not making money.
They were so happy to throw hardworking people onto the street in favour of AI because they were hoping for quick easy money and unless they start to grovel in front of pedo in the WH to save them with a bailout most of them will be declaring bankruptcy soon, but that might have been the plan all along so they can be bought cheap.
It's a good thing those invasive advertisers are currently covering everybody's losses. Fuck invasive ads, especially Tide!
AI feels at home in Bash. Corporate office work is mouse shoveling and email back and forth. Its a long way to get there.
It’s also a joke how poorly most companies are adopting AI. For many companies there have been meaningful improvements in software over the last few years that have been ignored completely and suddenly these same companies want to step over a bunch of stairs at once (insert meme) and do AI-buzzword-everything.
It doesn’t work like that
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I'd argue that most tech companies aren't actually seeing benefit matching what they've wasted ineffectively
Let’s not forget the endgame of decimating home computing.
No more computers for peasants.
We can do too much with them.
It's even funnier when consumers adopt AI agents to get refunds, move money around to high yield accounts, find deals and coupons and companies panic when it works.
It's already happening and wastes a tremendous amount of time. In a sea of bullshit slop there might be one (1) claim that's actually valid and might land you in deep legal trouble if not addressed. As usual small business are the most vulnerable to this.
Productivity isn't where most businesses are going to strike pay dirt. They're going to get their value in processing information and in prototyping ideas/products/solutions before actually physically making them.
So the article may be absolutely true and completely missing the point.
*having an illusion of information processing and producing tons of shitty prototypes. Yeah, sure, get their value, right
that's more about how most businesses use llms, less about what they are actually good/bad at