Comment by stingraycharles
4 months ago
I still have PTSD from how much Watson was being pushed by external consultants to C levels despite it being absolutely useless and incredibly expensive. A/B testing? Watson. Search engine? Watson. Analytics? Watson. No code? Watson.
I spent days, weeks arguing against it and ended up having to dedicate resources to build a PoC just to show it didn’t work, which could have been used elsewhere.
It's like poetry, it rhymes
This is going on all over again.
Agentic AI really is changing things. I've had a complete change of heart about it. It's good enough now to boost productivity MASSIVELY for devs.
I think this is one of those things that can be situationally useful, but also come with huge risks to the majority of users.