Drunk Driving Emerging Tech
We’re witnessing a planetary-scale, decentralized drunk driving experiment, and boy is it getting bad out there.
To describe what I mean, let’s use an analogy. Let’s assume one day, everyone in the world woke up and decided they’re a brain surgeon. Sure, some may have studied health in high school. Some may have even become doctors. But, there are maybe 70K neurosurgeons on the planet, representing ~0.00088% of the human population. Not very many.
Now let’s apply the same thinking to experts in AI or even better, emerging tech.
For some reason, the entire population woke up and decided they’re all neurosurgeon-equivalent experts in emerging tech.
So what happened as a result?
Well, first we decided AI wasn’t a thing. Then it was a thing. But it was a bubble.
Then we decided ooh it got good at coding. Let’s token max. Let’s mandate all employees use it and fire the ones who don’t. Cool, layoffs, better profits.
Wait, now we’re spending too much money on AI, we need to limit it. And what about ROI? Where’s the ROI? We need to fire more people, AND turn down our spend.
Darn it, the AI can’t yet do the claims on the box, so we need to hire people back.
And oh crap, it still takes human time and effort to vibe code our way to production. Uh oh, not enough compute. We need to use open source. Oof, that’s complex, do we also need to run our own compute and get off the cloud for privacy, security, and cost?
But this isn’t good. Our competitors are racing ahead. Somehow they figured it out? Or did they?
Investors, boards, executives, employees, the media are all watching in a stupor.
A bunch of drunk kids high on emerging tech, swerving all over the road, causing mayhem, public danger, and crashing into walls left and right.
Let’s take a pause for a second here and just take all that in. Drunk drivers are running the world r now. Why?
Because you gave the wrong people the keys. And now both your Brand and your Product are tarnished in the eyes of the market and employees.
It's time to take decisive action because the status quo certainly ain't workin', and the world, it is a changin'.
You need a group that’s been doing it for decades, have a firm hand on the wheel, and know the right road to travel. You’ll get there faster, more safely, and without all that emotional trauma.
--Sean