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>AWS should be spending significant time explaining how their giant portfolio of conventional tools are improving.

See but that won't work because leaders are dumb. The central tension of civilization is that the smart ones are needed down in the boiler/operating room to solve complex low-level problems, and whoever's left must steer the ship.

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It’d be nice to think of it like that, but I think the leaders just have completely different incentives.

It doesn’t cost them anything to re-route resources from the keep the lights on work, and has a potentially massive career impact if they’re the first ones to do something sensible with genAI.

Even if most of the work fails it’s still worth it. It’s to their benefit to hype AI beyond all reason because it justifies the resources they spend on it.

Then again, you'd think leadership is something more than just responding in an uncritical straight line to hype and incentives.

Never thought of it in those terms, but I'm afraid you've nailed it.

We're really fucked, aren't we?

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