reminds me of when I started at a .com in 99 that failed... they felt they needed oracle and sun and cisco routers... we did everything on linux for dev work but the founder wanted to apparently be able to sell that hardware and impress investors. He got basically nothing back on any of it. They offered me a sun server for like $100 that cost $20k. I took the windows desktop instead.

reminds me about the need for AI/ML in random things. maybe it's to sell the "powered by AI/ML" tag. just another hypestorm

I think they are led to believe it’s a good bet to make early.