AI Buyer’s Remorse is Finally Here

I’m glad to (finally) see some buyer’s remorse in the corporate ranks about their rapid deployment of AI, often at the expense of jobs (or so they claim). Costs are rapidly rising. Software quality is plummeting. Morale is tanking. The workers are getting angry. People are swamped with slop. About the only ones happy with this change are sociopaths who live increasingly solipsistic lives with a sycophantic word extruder (and maybe some jaded senior developers who want to get paid as much as possible while the going is good and no longer care what happens downstream). I’m hopeful that the end is near. The bubble is deflating. The growth is flatlining. We are finally past the Peak of Inflated Expectations and are now descending into the Trough of Disillusionment. Deployments are getting walked back, people are getting rehired, AI budgets are reduced. The best time for this to have happened was two years ago. The next best time is now.…