The AI boosterism is really weird. What is the big deal? My job is not to make AI succeed, it's too solve problems for our clients. Yet I'm getting told I need to use AI to do my job or my funding is going to get cut. We've done several research spikes to figure out where AI can fit into our project and apparently coming up with the answer of, "nowhere near the classified data" that means we must not have AI'd hard enough. My project owner doesn't seem to care if our actual project goals are met, he only seems to care that AI was used.

He's not my boss, so he can't literally tell me what to do. And my actual boss has told me to ignore him. But it's a worrying but of psychosis that I fear could infect the rest of the C-suite of it isn't addressed now.

So I do a lot of client work for F100s and I’ve got some good news and bad.

The bad news is it’s already in the C Suite and they (were) pushing it hard.

The good news is that since Copilot and others have started to charge based on usage a lot of those same leaders have hit the brakes and are now wanting detailed information and usage reporting to figure out where AI actually fits in.

Some have gone even further and slapped a usage limit on individuals or teams and left it at that.

Sanity is around the corner. At least until the next big thing :)