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by kylehotchkiss 129 days ago
> Imagine your own product. You likely won’t expect users 5 years from today to navigate 5 pages deep, apply filters and sort data just to try to derive the answer themselves… will you?

Yes, I do, because outside of tech circles, AI adoption is not as pervasive/ universal as the loudest voices keep suggesting. I’m not dismissing its value, but gentle reminder to spend more time around nontechnical people, listen to how they feel about the tech, and pay attention to how they engage with it when offered.

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I regularly ask people who are in non-tech professions re. the adoption of AI and whether it has benefitted them. The answer is a resounding no. If anything managers are starting to pull-back on the adoption.

This place is hyper-concentrated on the tech in a particular context and has no resemblance of whats going out there in the big wide-world outside of high-tech software production.

This is the year that revenue has to start showing up materially across a wide range of contexts or else fear will over-take the market and investors will start pressuring the big tech firms to pull back on capex. It is their money after all, not the management.