“A lot of generative AI stuff isn’t really working,” Gownder said. “I mean, enterprise, and I’m not just talking about your consumer experience, which has its own gaps, but the MIT study that suggested that 95 percent of all generative AI projects are not yielding a tangible P&L benefit. So no actual ROI. McKinsey has something like 80-something percent that don’t.
It’s AI rot. Simply put, it’s a lot like any software tool, if AI is doing the work and is doing the thinking then you are conforming to the tool instead of using the tool.
I deal with it a lot, even now when AI is just starting to poke it’s nose into our toolset. The person uses the tool without thinking but at the end of the day they don’t have a clue why they did any of it. So now our tools are being redesigned with that in mind so that the operator doesn’t have to think and can intentionally operate on autopilot. It’s the difference between an operator and an engineer, but it’s hard for most people to see the difference, they see it as gained efficiency or getting the operator to produce the same level of work. I foresee AI replacing the operators and the experts being lost due to attrition, then the experts that put the work in will become super valuable and scarce.
Matches my observation. Wasted 2 1/2 days creating some script with the help of AI. After nothing worked and I realized I’m just pasting shit into the prompt without thinking I scraped everything and did it again just using my brain.
20 mins later I had a working solution that was only a few lines of code.
Fuck AI