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Only 13% of companies see real returns from AI, survey finds (www.gartner.com)
submitted 2 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1487334/only-13-of-companies-see-real-returns-from-ai-survey-finds

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[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.social 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Leaving aside the whole circle jerkular economics of AI, the pattern in tech companies has been:

  • devs start using AI
  • middle mgmt says cool but watch the security
  • CEO says increase productivity, reduce labor!
  • middle mgmt says but the cost, and competence..
  • HR cuts 10% here, 15% there, finance says spreadsheet happy
  • delivery suffers, quality suffers
  • AI cost skyrockets
  • middle mgmt says ayyy no bueno
  • CEO still doesn't understand what AI is, says more more more
  • some AI generated script deletes PROD
  • there's no backup, no recovery
  • costs are higher than ever, product is worth less than ever, and there's no 'company' because there's no team

Can we make the CEO role redundant already? 'One boss to rule them all' is the fastest way into the fires of mount doom. Stupid fucks...

Where are all those agile loraxes now? Why didn't we listen to them about sustainable operations?

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My friend, you seem to have a higher opinion of middle management than I; they seem to be frantically adopting AI almost as fast as the C Suite to me, and pushing for every "cut costs and defer security features" measure that they can.

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the 'just following orders' brigade. Also, C is for Charlatan, it was decided, by them, through their ineptitude.

Depends on the company and its culture. Sometimes they're the worst, others they're quite good.

Size can be a factor (easier to hide in a larger crowd), but any size group can allow itself to be led by feckless fecking fecks if they don't push back.

[–] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

In my case (a publicly listed company), ceo and the executive board are silent towards workers, its the useless middle mgmnt pushing this shit.

I dont even remember seeing ceo anywhere in years

[–] vane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hope this is happening to Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and couple of more companies.