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Execs are confused: we forced you to use all these powerful AI tools and yet our profits aren't 10x! What gives?

Individual productivity is always downstream of strategy. And the same "more, faster!" attitude that creates incremental improvements in delivery speed means that leaders rush through strategy formation.

If the tasks don't add up to anything meaningful, no amount of model improvements will help you.

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in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov

Also the plagiarising slop extrusion machine is not particularly productive, not if you actually care about the quality of your output that is.
in reply to Daniƫl Franke

@ainmosni Yes, absolutely (for that, see almost every other issue of the Picnic). But it is a lost cause with execs. One gets more mileage convincing them to invest into things like a proper PDLC and cleaning up the data as prerequisites to probabilistic automation. And if the bubble pops by that point...oh well!
in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov

@NathanBowers that tracks for me, and I'm glad so many of us are having similar conversations. You can't use AI to skip anything like strategy or judgement. Otherwise, you're taking a fast car off a steep cliff.
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