Comment by everdrive

> "Most companies are efficiency-obsessed. Hence, they also expect AI solutions to increase “productivity”

So this is true on paper, but I can tell you that companies don't broadly do a very good job of being efficient. What they do a good job of is doing the bare minimum in a number of situations, generating fragile, messy, annoying, or tech-debt-ridden systems / processes / etc.

Companies regularly claim to make objective and efficient decisions, but often those decisions amount to little more than doing a half-assed job because it will save money and will probably be good enough. The "probably" does a lot of work here, and then "probably" is not good enough there's a lot of blame shifting / politics / bullshitting.

The idea that companies are efficient is generally not very realistic except when it comes to things with real, measurable costs, such as manufacturing.