[tsunamifury]

This exactly. Gartner and McKinsey were paid by openAI and Anthropic to sell executive teams on AI usages 20xing profits while cutting spend 70%. And if they don’t immediately make the front end investment now they would be left behind by their competitors.

The presentations were convincing and many bought large upfront wholesale tokens then forced them on their employees.

When the savings didn’t materialize and neither did the profits. And the spend was no longer going down but up, many execs rather than admit they were duped began blaming workers at scale for not making up for their stupid decision.

This is the “get them addicted” part of the platform play.

The problem is unlike any successful drug this was expensive and low payoff.