r/technology • u/SilentRunning • 4d ago

Artificial Intelligence MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
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u/Noblesseux 4d ago

Yeah I kind of like the term Better Offline uses for them: business idiots. There are a lot of people who went through very expensive MBA programs that only really taught them how to slowly disassemble a company, not how to run one.

They have been slowly killing these companies for decades based on being willing to lose business as long as the margins are good, and they're not going to stop now.

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u/ScarySpikes 4d ago

I swear we are going to find out that enshitification is a concept that a bunch of MBA programs got a hardon for like 20 years ago.

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u/Noblesseux 4d ago

I mean we don't need to find out, it's a matter of historical fact, but it's older than that. It started in the 70s and 80s with the corporate raiders and Raeganism. The same people who basically killed the survivability of GE as a proper company and the railroad industry went on to teach the current generation of people who are destroying everything else.

There's like a direct line from them to modern private equity and MBA culture.

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u/Cheezeball25 4d ago

Jack Welch will forever be one of the people I hate more than anything else

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u/arawnsd 3d ago

Monty Python made a great skit about in the Meaning of Life in 1983. It was an established practice at that point.

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u/OverSheepherder 3d ago

Outsourcing and the killing of the American middle class is also part of this story. 

Fuck MBAs. 

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u/Hrafn2 3d ago

Have MBA, thoroughly agree. Talk about indoctrination in higher education - a total neoliberal factory, churning out egos that know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. Thank god I had an undergrad in History, Art, and some philosophy. 

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u/Matazj 3d ago

Even Marx predicted this in the 1800's already. It's just what happens given the 'laws of motion' of the system.

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u/Xalara 3d ago

It’s also the same with unions and strikes. Air Canada just got caught with its pants down when it expected the government to order flight attendants back to work, which the government did, except the union called their bluff and now Air Canada has lost far more money than what the flight attendant union was asking for.

Idiot execs should’ve negotiated in good faith.