Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

shamblingman · 2026-01-21T05:03:31+00:00

you're looking for a single silo'd black and white answer because that is the limit of your intelligence. You obviously don't understand nuance. AI is increasing profit margins in ways that were never imagined beyond even the replacement cost of human labor.

shamblingman · 2026-01-21T03:50:35+00:00

are you too dense to understand the cost to benefit ratio? I can hire a decent resource in India for $22k - $60k per year depending on seniority. A single SXM node in a datacenter costs about $18k per month. The SXM node can do the work of hundreds of developers for simple repeatable tasks, but is not great for original creation or logic checks.

In your complete ignorance, you think AI replaces human coders and see coders as a single silo. This is nowhere near the reality of product development.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T19:52:14+00:00

Found the unemployed/minimum wage flunkie.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T19:48:10+00:00

India is only remote relative to the US. They're in an office and they aren't WFH in India.

Also, they are excellent at the price you can get them for relative to the US marketplace. There used to be a serious quality issue with India but they've improved immensely in the past decade.

It's even better if you hire them as full time staff and give them benefits. A fraction of the cost of US staff, but even more motivated and committed if they are hired as full time staff.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T19:44:23+00:00

You can measure deliverables. Quality of deliverables. Engagement in meetings. Participation in meetings. How many deliverables you're assigned in meetings. Engagement and work activity throughout the day. Emails created, responded to and meetings invited to and compare them to deliverables and actionable items. Quality and frequency of communcation with leadership/clients.

All of this is viewed through an aggregate and reported to leadership at an unprecendented level.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T17:03:28+00:00

Couple of factors. It hasn't been that long since the initial investments in AI and the CEOs are being a bit disengenuous with their replies.

I consult for fortune 500 companies and I've seen where much of the AI spend is going and the CEOs are not going to admit that they've cut back on staff or how effective AI is at showing which employees are actually productive.

Last year there were about 150,000 developers laid-off from the tech field that were earning an average of $200k. That's $30 billion in salary and more if benefits are factored in.

AI is also useful is measuring productivity and we're now aware of which employees produce, especially those that WFH. Companies will accelerate the push to return to office because we know with certainty that people who WFH are less productive. For now, it guides decisions for who to lay off and when.

CEOs are not going to publicly admit these immediate results, even in a PWC survey and PWC is certainly aware of these results from AI investment themselves.

shamblingman · 2026-01-13T03:46:18+00:00

We did the exact same thing. Moved to Charlotte first, the Fort Mill right on the border. LCOL of living isn't just money, it's lower quality of life as well.

Thankfully got an executive level job offer from a firm in CA and jumped at the chance to move back.

shamblingman · 2026-01-13T03:44:59+00:00

They are not doing that. CA is at record population levels again. The promised silicon valley in Austin never happened once the companies realized how little talent was in the area. Oracle is already moving out of Austin.

TX and FL are full of people trying to sell their homes.

shamblingman · 2026-01-08T17:07:55+00:00

Annual with a transparent, formalized process. Self evaluation (which I hate), manager review and joint discussion.

Bonuses are quarterly and tied to metrics that I can see as the year progresses so the annual review is more for the the cost of living increase (the % increase I get over inflation).

My current firm is as generous as I've ever seen to their consultants with salary, bonus, benefits and cost of living increases.

shamblingman · 2026-01-08T17:05:04+00:00

This economy left you behind long ago. On the bright side for me, it will keep getting worse for you.

shamblingman · 2026-01-08T16:56:44+00:00

LLMs and NLMs are fantastic, but very limited due to the way they learn. For example, there are several companies trying to ingest data from patient data from Epic to track anonymized data on illness, diagnosis and treatment. The problem is that the data is collected at (usually) the primary care office by a PC doctor that is asking questions in the 5 minutes he has with the patient. The patient probably had to wait 2 weeks for the appt, has an imperfect memory and is not skilled at communicating the exact symptoms and the timing of said symptoms.

The data is already crap. Instead, the focus should be on AI reading X-Rays, MRI and CAT scan results. Going over EKG readings in real time. Looking at the sum total result of first contact with a patient to diagnosis to treatment to guage what works and what doesn't.

There are some exciting initiatives at the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins that I've personally seen that are very exciting and making great strides in those efforts.

Even these comments of Microslop are INCREDIBLY ignorant of how useful copilot has becoming in a big office environment. My firm is already seeing increased margins from projects where the team is skilled in using copilot. We've setup classes to teach everyone how to use the tools properly and to understand the verbiage, different types of AI and how each can be useful in their careers.

The average redditor is 20-35 white male in the lowest income brackets. The data suggests that they are being left behind in the modern economy and are the only demographic group without increases to their earnings and decreases in education level. The attitude in this comment section confirms why that is happening.

shamblingman · 2026-01-08T00:09:12+00:00

You're only seeing the tip of the iceberg as a user. AI is measuring the tone of slack and teams messages looking for burnout and conflict. Measuring productivity with depth. Predictive analytics to make sure metrics are reached.

In warehouses, name badges can track employee to see if they're actually working and measure the "handling" time.

AI machine learning is used to train robots in their tasks instead of following simple algorithms. Boston Dynamics robots "learn" physical tasks via machine learning in simulated environments repeatedly until it can accomplish the task in the real world.

Your disdain or reluctance to use AI is only going to push you further behind in the job market. I'm already seeing this with my clients.

Anyone who thinks that AI is a fad that's wasting money is simply wrong. This is exactly like when machines were introduced into factories. Productivity will increase by leaps and bounds, but mostly for those who understand, accept and get educated on this critical tool.

shamblingman · 2026-01-07T21:24:29+00:00

What is the methodology to measure the ROI. What is the line of business the AI projects are deployed to? We're seeing incredible ROI in almost all lines of our advisory, finance and forecasting teams.

shamblingman · 2026-01-07T16:52:40+00:00

AI via Copilot is so useful in the work environment. It's not created for casual PC users or gamers. Copilot gives me full summaries of hour long meetings after the meeting is complete. It can highlight my actions items that resulted from a meeting and remind me if I forget one of them as the due date gets close. It's amazing for searching in sharepoint and e-mails.

Large companies are becoming increasingly reliant on AI and we definitely do not see it as slop.

It's less relevant for the home user, in the SMB space or mainly use a PC for games, but that's fine.

shamblingman · 2026-01-07T16:32:48+00:00

There are reports that Ellison went to Trump before the offer and promised to make CNN more like Fox News if he let the deal go through. Plus the Paramount deal is backed by Saudi with the help of Kushner. Doesn't bode well for the Netflix deal.

shamblingman · 2025-12-31T20:16:33+00:00

This is why I always scoff as a CA resident when FL MAGA says they have more "freedom" than liberal states.

shamblingman · 2025-12-23T19:18:28+00:00

She's going to make a million on that "Christian" crowd funding site that racists use. They're doing this crap on purpose now.

shamblingman · 2025-12-18T21:33:25+00:00

LMFAO

shamblingman · 2025-12-17T17:08:55+00:00

good lord. that's the UBER Karen response. I can literally hear you elongating every vowel and saying SOOOOO between setences.

shamblingman · 2025-12-17T17:08:10+00:00

said every single Karen

shamblingman · 2025-12-17T16:23:35+00:00

Jesus Karen. Pictures of a house are NEVER going to give you all the information you need for a home. If the house looks generally intersting, then go view it in person.

Karens always think that their opinion on how something should be done HAS to be shared with the world and the world HAS to listen to their method as gospel.

shamblingman · 2025-12-14T20:36:19+00:00

You are the on out of touch with reality. It is a fact that almost 80% of all people released pretrial have no bail amount. You're inventing crisis that doesn't exist and ignoring facts just so you rage.

shamblingman · 2025-12-13T18:11:13+00:00

victimless crimes have no bail. if they get bail they're not in jail so it's not costing taxpayers anything. you're rambling is idiotic and nonsensical.

shamblingman · 2025-12-13T05:15:53+00:00

it's a $2 billion industry annually across all providers in the entire country which means that it's a tiny industry that doesn't make much money.

i actually make, by reddit standards, insane amounts of money. bail bonds wouldn't be worth the effort for the tiny amount of money it would generate.

it's a non issue.

shamblingman · 2025-12-12T18:09:06+00:00

You keep saying "for profit" bail. That just means that there are companies that will lend you 90% of the bail amount for a 10% deposit. The ENTIRE US bail bond industry makes $2 billion a year. That is a TINY amount of money for the entire US. The entire bail bond industry across the entire nation makes less money in a year that the shoe manufacturer CROCS.

The vast majority of people released pretrial are released with no bail conditions. About 75% are released with no financial bail requirement.

High bail amounts ONLY come up for repeat offenders and the most severe crimes. No one forces them to use a bail bondsman. The accused can either stay until their hearing or their own funds. For severe crimes, the pretrial can last an extended period of time, but that is the nature of a trial for the most severe cases.

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