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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 12:32:30 JST Adrianna Tan

   if gen AI was the game changer to business that everyone says it is, there wouldn't be so many books and PDFs and white papers and playbooks for business leaders to help them convince *their employees* to use gen AI

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 12:33:43 JST Adrianna Tan

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     if you're ever curious about what the contents of these documents say, they just say:

     - AI is a game changer!
     - Your employees don't think so!
     - Here's how to change their minds!!

     The path to gen AI adoption and growth isn't 'AI literacy for employees', it's 'product market fit' and 'actually having a compelling use case'

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 12:52:03 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There is no other domain of business that works like this. Unlimited spend on a thing before you have a use case that’s tested and budgeted and accounted for. All of this is really corporate fomo

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 14:16:21 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Jeff Smith

     @hugoestr @sumisu3 yes, but i'm certain tech leadership knows. it's a financial instrument to increase their stock price with every hype cycle

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     Duchamp Pérez (hugoestr@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 14:16:22 JST Duchamp Pérez

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     • Jeff Smith

     @sumisu3 @skinnylatte This is interesting because it may signal that the current business leadership is overcorrecting, seeing internets in 1992 where they aren't. Since 2010 we had had augmented reality, virtual realty, blockchain, and currently AI.

     I have a problem thinking of any useful technology created since 2010 that was hyped as the next big thing

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     Jeff Smith (sumisu3@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 14:16:23 JST Jeff Smith

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     @skinnylatte I’m definitely not a cheerleader for AI, but I am old enough though to remember, and was part of, trying to convince businesses that the Internet was going to change the world and that connectivity was crucial for business. This was pre-WWW so it was indeed a tough sell.