points by CamperBob2 6 hours ago | 0 comments
Failure to take advantage of available tools does not suggest whether you are a good guy or a bad guy, just whether you are a competent guy or an incompetent guy.
[–] ehnto 4 hours ago
Tools have no morality but they do have effects and outcomes. That's where we make our judgement call on whether you're good or bad for using them.
[–] lifeisloving 6 hours ago
Whats an example of a company, that existed pre-AI that has so far failed to take advantage of AI and has fallen behind?
I see a ton of examples of companies overusing AI and destroying their brand/image and products, but not many who abstained and are hurting. Using AI does not give you automatic wins, and using it solely because its available does not make you competent.
[–] ehnto 2 hours ago
Its going to be wildly distributed and varied so hard to spot, but look for companies where the main output was commodity B2B assets and you can see a real impact. Marketing copy, images, graphic design in the low and mid tiers. Real businesses supplied that stuff and even adopting AI wouldn't help, since their customers could just do it in house now.
There's heaps of companies between small and conglomerate and the middle area is where the commodity asset companies lived. Generating low stakes copy, art, apps and websites for small companies.
[–] lifeisloving 1 hour ago
Okay I'll conceed there, but I dont think my rule applies to businesses that were already slop factories pre-ai.
[–] selcuka 5 hours ago