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by sunshine-o 14 days ago
I remember they were pushing the AI narrative all along the 2010s on their front page. 10 years ahead of everybody.

We looked into it at the time there was nothing interesting.

Outside of the mainframe, power business, some research and cool things they bought like Redhat and Hashicorp, IBM is an horrible company. They are the incarnation of the cold, stupid corporation, the buzzword soup and the sales to entrap you in an expensive unending nightmare.

I heard they had a lot of really good people but my guess is most of them left.

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They were ahead of the industry in Marketing but not in reality.

Having AI and an army of consultants is the market standard today. This is because it works.

IBM slapped Watson on everything, and claimed a ton of revenue. In reality they had a bunch of customers who hated them for decades of broken promises.