Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business…
Yesterday, I was shown Scale’s “2024 AI Readiness Report”. It has this chart in it:
[Text table version of chart]
Category
Percentage
Org process efficiency
62%
Customer experience
59%
Ability to develop new products or services
47%
Functionality of existing products or services
43%
Collaboration across business functions
40%
Strategic decision making
34 %
Profit
34%
Revenue
32%
We have not seen positive outcomes
8%
We have not implemented generative AI
7%
How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can’t manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn’t laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making? What the actual fuck are you talking about? GPT-4 can’t even write coherent Elixir, presumably because the dataset was too small to get it to the level that it’s at for Python[1], and you’re admitting that you outsource your decisionmaking to the thing that sometimes tells people to brew lethal toxins for their families to consume? What does that even mean?
I assume this is a survey of management and C-suite types, too. Notoriously incompetent at actually managing production in any industry trying to adopt “AI”. These are the kind of people who ask ChatGPT to rewrite their emails and think this means “process efficiency”. And you just know that “customet experience” means they think they can get away with firing at least half their customer service staff (they can’t, but they think they can).
People perceive themselves as working faster with “ai” help, but in reality, they are slower.
Yeah, management types probably still think ai is the future and not just the latest speculative bubble
I once watched my former dept head spend 15 minutes coaxing ChatGPT into writing SQL statements to copy a couple tables. He was thrilled about it. I wanted a meteor to instantly kill the both of us.
I know you want to be the next Steve Jobs, and this requires you to get on stages and talk about your innovative prowess, but none of this will allow you to pull off a turtle neck, and even if it did, you would need to replace your sweaters with fullplate to survive my onslaught.
This has Seanbaby vibes that I really connect with
We usually get stuff transcribed by local wildlife. I know a magpie that is pretty good on the keyboard, shits everywhere, but not as much as the cockatoo did.
Blog post from June 2024 entitled “I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again” (sequel to the hit post “I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet”):
edit: added article title
And we can argue about its Python quality too. ↩︎
I assume this is a survey of management and C-suite types, too. Notoriously incompetent at actually managing production in any industry trying to adopt “AI”. These are the kind of people who ask ChatGPT to rewrite their emails and think this means “process efficiency”. And you just know that “customet experience” means they think they can get away with firing at least half their customer service staff (they can’t, but they think they can).
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/
People perceive themselves as working faster with “ai” help, but in reality, they are slower. Yeah, management types probably still think ai is the future and not just the latest speculative bubble
I once watched my former dept head spend 15 minutes coaxing ChatGPT into writing SQL statements to copy a couple tables. He was thrilled about it. I wanted a meteor to instantly kill the both of us.
This has Seanbaby vibes that I really connect with
I always thought the same thing. Turns out the guy is Australian which for whatever reason blew my mind.
Australians can write?
We usually get stuff transcribed by local wildlife. I know a magpie that is pretty good on the keyboard, shits everywhere, but not as much as the cockatoo did.
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