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- The author's consulting team reports observing a 0% success rate across all AI projects over 18 months, including projects they merely observed in passing while doing unrelated work.
- Mitsubishi's customer-facing chatbot — described by the author as the most competent implementation he'd encountered — promised a callback that never came after six months, and the author decided against purchasing another vehicle as a result.
- An executive at a $2B+ revenue organization produced a technical strategy centered entirely on AI while admitting they had never personally used ChatGPT or any AI tool, according to the author.
- An employer with significant money at stake fired their highest-performing employees because those employees were achieving strong results without using LLMs, per the author's account.
- In organizations with 500+ employees, continued employment increasingly requires repeated declarations of belief in AI's transformative power — what the author characterizes as 'religious profession' rather than practical engagement.
- Many publicly traded companies announce AI productivity gains after merely purchasing Copilot licenses and declaring victory, with the author claiming direct knowledge of these businesses having done nothing else.
- Internally-facing chatbots consistently fail because companies have low-quality documentation and LLMs 'can only know things that have been written down and made accessible,' the author attests.
Why it matters: Across 18 months of client work, the author's team claims a 0% success rate for AI projects — a finding that directly contradicts the AI productivity announcements publicly traded companies are putting out, which the author says amount to little more than Copilot license purchases declared as victory.
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