> real innovation happening, but I find it's mostly companies cutting corners

There's a meme that I think fits: https://i.redd.it/20rpdamxef0f1.jpeg

I think for a long time, cutting corners so that the number can go up next quarter has worked surprisingly well. Genuinely, I don't think a lot of corporations view offering a better product as a viable means of competing in the 2025 marketplace.

For them, AI is not the next industrial revolution, it's the next overseas outsourcing; AI isn't a way to bring new value to customers, it's a way to bring roughly the same value (read worse) but at a much cheaper cost to them. If they get their way, everything will get worse, while they make more money. That's the value proposition at play here.