Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by stingraycharles on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:41PM
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> Even some of my team members were talking about the placebo effect AI has had on a lot of C-Suite folks.
What do you mean placebo effect? They thought things were created with AI while they actually weren’t?
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by steveBK123 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:09PM
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For a lot of C-suite there has been more of a fast-follow approach to AI. CEO hears 3rd hand what competitors are doing, tells his CTO to "do AI" and "hire a head of AI".
So a lot of motion (do AI) was created without a destination (product outcome). The motion was what was being measured (we are doing AI).
Headlines is what matters at the executive and board level. Start measuring things and they might not be able to spin a story to sell.
For a large part of society we have management in leadership positions.
Probably meaning C-Suite thought productivity was up because of AI, either because A) metrics showed high AI usage or more commits/LOC or B) we're mandating AI usage, why wouldn't it increase?
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by Quarrelsome on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:56PM
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30% is my new favourite stat. It seems to come up a lot, like the old "this work will take 6 months" that I was equally suspicious of back in the day.
Bender: "I'm 30% [XYZ]"
http://theinfosphere.org/Bender_Bending_Rodriguez#Compositio...
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by wookmaster on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:48PM
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This is all still going on at my company but they’ve been trying to create dashboards to measure us as good or bad with our output unsuccessfully but they keep shoving it through anyways. It’s demoralized a lot of people.
> It’s demoralized a lot of people
Isn't this a good thing? Doesn't it mean your company doesn't want employees to treat LLMs like a slot machines?
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by FromTheFirstIn on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:30AM
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But they are, so it’s demoralizing to be punished for not hitting the jackpot
Myself and several other devs were laughing about the whole thing. The company was so amped about what AI could do they never even bothered collecting any analytics that would affirm or deny any of this had a positive impact. Even some of my team members were talking about the placebo effect AI has had on a lot of C-Suite folks.