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Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

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Re: Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

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Post by tern »

cmiles8 wrote: post #6

>>“… wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies “ Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI. It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought. Business is also noticing…

I think it's just hard to know this for the people working on it. AI radically changed my life. I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work. I've been listening to people around me talking about alignment and the singularity for almost a decade. It's strange to imagine that people live in a world where this isn't and hasn't been happening for a while now. "Over-hyped" is not the word I would use if I take my daily experience as an example, nor when I consider even lower-bound projections.

Re: Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

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Post by CharlieDigital »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #19

> The result is a lot of proof-of-concept projects that lack what's required to make them durable, trustworthy, and deployable at scale. Starting with business needs first is essential. A bunch of frivolous projects that fail sounds to me like a pretty good way to learn how far a new technology can be trusted. If you're considering putting AI into something load bearing you either need a engineer who has not been par…

    > ...learn how far a new technology can be trusted
I think you've missed the point of this statement:

    > Starting with business needs first is essential
This is a negative shift I've seen in product now. Instead of emphasizing with the user and trying to understand the domain, processes, real-world usage scenarios, product teams are now building junk prototypes and throwing these over the wall at the user. Maybe this works for some spaces and domains.

But the reality is that for many end consumers of software, it's not a good experience to use janky software that changes behaviors, flows, and screens on a whim now because product can.

I think AI has had a negative effect on product teams; I can see all pretense of thoughtful design and execution after understanding the customer being thrown out the window and leaving a much worse end-user experience as designs and capabilities shift around without foresight and product teams "feel" their way through.

Re: Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

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Post by jollyllama »

cmiles8 wrote: post #6

>>“… wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies “ Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI. It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought. Business is also noticing…

To say it briefly:

>Why aren't people more resentful that these companies have pushed this technology upon them

They are.

Re: Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

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Post by JCTheDenthog »

tern wrote: post #21
cmiles8 wrote: post #6

>>“… wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies “ Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI. It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought. Business is also noticing…

I think it's just hard to know this for the people working on it. AI radically changed my life. I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work. I've been listening to people around me talking about alignment and the singularity for almost a decade. It's strange to imagine that people live in a world where this isn't and hasn't been happening for a while now. "Over-hyped" is not the word I would…

>I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work.

Got any examples you can share?

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