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Bureaucracy cannot learn the problems of the past with bureaucracy because it is against their self interest.

Work in large orgs long enough and you will recognize these creatures. Ladder climbing is a skill orthogonal to adding any value to the customer/company.

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Completely agree. It amazes me how some folks think AI is unlike any other technology revolution. History repeats.
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You're right it's just like any other mechanization/automation revolution. Except it's not.

It's happening about 10x faster than any other I've seen or read about.

Conceive how long it took just to get barcode scanners rolled out in grocery stores. Or direct payment terminals. Or how many decades it's been getting robotics into the manufacturing of cars at scale. I worked through the .com boom and I can tell you that "webification" took 10 years or more for most businesses (and many of them now just gave up and just have a Facebook page instead etc)

This is a little insane what's happening now. It really does change everything. People who don't work in software I don't think have any idea what's coming.

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It both is & isn't moving 10x faster.

It's highly salient to management, and being forced top-down by them at 10x speed, for sure, because they see a future cost save to reduce headcount.

For certain technical roles its a force multiplier and already very saturated for sure.

On the other hand there's a lot of solution-looking-for-problem going on in large orgs where layers of management have been banging the table for 2-3 years on AI KPIs without any value being delivered.

In the weekly AI wins mail at a friends company, multiple non-technicals were bragging how AI has saved them 15 minutes a day by summarizing their morning inbox. This was the big game changer for them.

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