AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
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AI investments in businesses almost always fail, yet executives demand faith over evidence.
The author, a consultant, reports a 0% success rate across all AI projects they have observed in 1.5 years. Companies adopt AI without tracking basic metrics like usage. Employees are forced to profess belief in AI's transformative power, and those who express doubt risk firing. Some engineers fake AI usage by running pointless prompts to meet token quotas. A demo of a natural-language database query tool caused clients to ignore millions in non-AI savings and beg to buy it. The author concludes that executive AI mania has made rational decision-making impossible.
What commenters are saying
Commenters split on the article's claims. One camp says useful AI gets silently integrated into workflows and is not labeled as an 'AI project.' Another agrees that executive mania is real and that non-technical audiences drive moonshots that fail. One commenter notes that the author's company, Hermit Tech, openly rejects modern tech, making them biased. A top comment points out that AI-assisted engineering has mixed results: good for prototyping and bug fixing, but questionable for maintenance costs. The Ford rehiring story is dismissed as a misleading example about computer vision, not LLMs.