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Yes: “about what benefits AI is actually providing today, 66 percent said it’s improving productivity and efficiency.” But: “How that works when only 20 percent report revenue growth is left unanswered.” // And: “Currently, 25 percent of organizations say they’ve shifted 40 percent or more of their AI experiments into live use. That number is expected to reach 54 percent of organizations within the next three to six months.” // Meanwhile, here’s an accounting of executive hopes and dreams.

🔗 Deloitte sees enterprises adopting AI without revenue lift

Stack Overflow said 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, up from 76% a year earlier. In the AI section, 47.1% of respondents said they use AI tools daily, and another 17.7% use them weekly. Yet developers’ trust has not kept pace. Stack Overflow’s analysis said trust in AI accuracy fell to 29% from 40% in prior years, and “positive favorability” dropped to 60% from 72% year over year.

🔗 Developers Lean on AI More, But Report Growing Doubts About Accuracy, Stack Overflow Survey Says

Enterprise ROI still elusive

More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite massive investments in the technology, according to a PwC survey of 4,454 business leaders"… Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases. 🔗 Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

Debating AI dicks is pointless

He’s never been a fan of AI: I’ve stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs…this is still a crowd that is explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical." Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project built on disregarding consent, being applied to dismantle public infrastructure and institutions, is fundamentally a dick move.

AI's are not very good at role playing games

My findings after 3 years on AIs playing games is that they’re just generally bad at it. They’re just good enough to string you along, hoping they’ll get good. Their lack of new ideas and inability to take action gives you a sort of “it’s just about to be good” feel that keeps you playing. Like that feeling that the next pull of the slot machine will be the jackpot.

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The Revenge of QA: How AI Code Generation Is Exposing Decades of Process Debt - “AI isn’t revealing new problems - it’s exposing decades of process debt we’ve been carrying all along.” / One bottleneck after another… Morally judging famous and semi-famous people - “spending real time and energy morally judging famous and semi-famous people is one of the best and quickest ways to make yourself stupider.” best books, essays, and poems of 2025 - What a list!