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Re:56% of CEOs report zero financial return from AI in 2026 ... by andsoitis on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:30PM (#47175111)
> The bottleneck for small operators is different: it's not knowing which workflows are worth building, in what order, and what "system-level" vs "task-level" use actually means in practice.

Are you saying that from what you see, small operators also fail to get ROI, but for different reasons?

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Re:56% of CEOs report zero financial return from AI in 2026 ... by harran on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:23PM (#47175575)
yes, but not at the same rate. and yes it's usually for different reasons.

Enterprises usually struggle because of structure: approvals, incentives, legacy systems, fragmentation.

Small operators usually struggle because they stay at the task level "prompt-by-prompt productivity boosts" instead of building workflow-level or system-level leverage.

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