Was talking to a friend working in a startup with an AI focused product and asked him how is AI helping them. He answered that it allows them to make releases faster. You should have seen the look on his face when I asked “so what? Are the releases bug free? Do they solve the business requirement without errors?” It blew his mind when I asked this and he told me they can now release the fix faster. The above behavior is typical when you talk to AI proponents. The main selling point for them is that you can release faster. My counterpoint is that are the faster releases solving business problems faster? Or allowing you to push out fixes for stuff that doesn’t work/broke in production because you didn’t check it correctly? If it is the former then fantastic. That is what I need AI to help me do, nut if it is the latter then it is of no use to me or the business. People forget that IT is not there in a company to try out the latest tools or use the latest technologies. It is there to…
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