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'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making' — Nik Suresh Documents an Executive Who Wrote a $2B Company's AI Strategy Without Ever Using ChatGPT
Simon Willison linked Nik Suresh's essay on July 19, which reports a consultant's-eye view of AI adoption inside large enterprises: an executive at a $2B+ company authored the AI strategy having never touched an AI tool, and engineers are rewriting codebases in other languages purely 'to keep my job.' Suresh's sharpest structural claim is that the dishonesty isn't sales fluff — customer executives claim 100x productivity gains, and vendor executives can't contradict them without torching contract credibility and their own jobs, so the inflated numbers self-perpetuate through organizational self-preservation.
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