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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by xp84 on Friday May 15, 2026 @11:43PM (#48156634)
Yup. My friend said his boss has told them basically that they HAVE TO (do all the AI things) because now ‘our competitors will use AI’ and surpass their product.

In my humble opinion good ideas (what to build) are a big part of the bottleneck and those aren’t substantially in greater supply with AI.

Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by sgc on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:18AM (#48159131)
> good ideas ... aren’t substantially in greater supply

Which is sad because they should be. People should be freed up to think and create better things, instead these companies seem to be doing the equivalent of locking their employees in stalls like they do on some animal farms, so they can churn out 'results' ever faster.

Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by Sharlin on Saturday May 16, 2026 @08:35AM (#48159660)
> People should be freed up to think and create better things,

Good ideas will never ever be prioritized in the vast majority of companies because good ideas cannot be quantified and turned into performance metrics. At least not without invoking Goodhart's law (see: the academia).

Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by 34df on Saturday May 16, 2026 @09:59PM (#48165437)
Good ideas also take resources like time, free-space to think etc... many firms dont understand this. Moreover many firms believe the C-Suite are the almighty with the gods gift of great ideas.
Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by jmalicki on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:24PM (#48164674)
There is a degree to which quick experimentation helps you find the good ideas, at least for the incremental ones.