AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Willison links to Nik Suresh's piece documenting AI hype dysfunction at large enterprise clients: executives who've never used ChatGPT writing $2B-revenue AI strategies, engineers gaming internal token leaderboards by rewriting codebases in Zig, and a self-reinforcing dynamic where vendor staff can't challenge customer executives' 100x productivity claims without risking contract cancellation. An on-the-ground corrective to top-down AI adoption narratives.