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I'm a fellow GE developer working under one of the businesses, and I agree with what you've said here.

The team I work on was never sold on the benefits of the platform, but we were told to use it. Arbitrary targets like "get 150 apps to run on Predix" were set, but because there were no clear advantages to doing so, these targets were internally de-prioritized compared to working on features. They spun the numbers to give the appearance of momentum, but over time people talked about the platform less and less, and it became obvious that the emperor had no clothes.

GE has pockets of good developers; the grassroots culture that you mention is evidence of that. I'm hopeful that Flannery's renewed interest in the business verticals will enable those developers to focus their effort in places that actually deliver value, instead of wasting it on grand top-down initiatives to become some kind of industrial AWS. The sooner that happens, the sooner the company will get out of the miserable slump that it's been in.