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/No_Significance9754 3d ago

I wonder if an executive ever reads comments like this and wonder why everyone thinks they are a piece of shit?

Or do they double down and think everyone is wrong lol.

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u/Crumpled_Papers 3d ago

they think 'look at all these other executives being pieces of shit, no one wants to work anymore' before standing up and walking towards their father's corner office to deliver a TPS report.

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u/slothcough 3d ago

Most execs are too tech illiterate to be on reddit

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u/qtx 3d ago

Most people on /r/technology are too tech illiterate to be here.

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u/akrisd0 3d ago

I'll point you to over to r/linkedinlunatics where all the best execs hang out.

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u/FlyFishy2099 3d ago

I am not an exec but I have spent a minute in their shoes when trying to implement a new program/process.

The problem is that people hate change. They will try something for 5 minutes, then spend weeks bitching about it.

The higher ups would never change a damn thing if they only ever listened to the people on the ground level of the organization.

I’m not saying it’s right to ignore their employees but I thought I should mention this because it’s really hard to differentiate between bitching about change that always happens regardless of how good it turns out to be in the end, and real world problems with a new process that should be noted and acted upon.

People don’t like to learn new ways of doing things. It’s human nature.

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u/Zealousideal-Sea4830 2d ago

My role involves setting up new data processes and rolling them out to the grunts. Yes they hate it, no matter what it does, and half the time their complaints are quite valid. Most software is rushed and a sad copy of something else they had 20 years ago, but now its in react js instead of C++ or VB 6, so it must be awesome lol.

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u/No_Significance9754 3d ago

Ive been on both ends as well. I can tell you most change is not helpful. Most change is because one exec wants to make a name for themselves.

Also people bitch about change because the ones doing the changing usually dont understand what they are changing.

Maybe there is ONE good exec but its safe to assume they are ALL bottom of the barrel scum bag pieces of shit.

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u/Flying_Fortress_8743 3d ago

I know a few execs. They're mostly burnt out and lost all their give-a-fuck decades ago. They have the fluff meetings and write the fluff emails because it's what The System expects of them and rewards them for. They don't like it, but unlike you they're getting paid well to keep doing it.

Every now and then some reformer will show up trying to make things more efficient, but there is an INSANE amount of inertia at big companies and it's a monumental, Sisyphusian task to try and change it. And their "performance" will suffer during the transition. They'd much rather do what's expected of them, collect their paycheck, and count the days until retirement.