AI Investment Hot Take
Say you have invested billions of dollars in AI with the promise that your AI will replace all software developers thereby saving companies millions of dollars in salaries. And say it turns out this isn’t true because, even though the AI improves productivity for experienced developers (the expensive ones) the AI can’t do non-trivial software development.
What do you do? Do you
- Say sorry, you made a mistake and right off the investment?
- Try to destroy the software industry so that people are forced to resort to AI because they have no choice?
Which do you think Mr Nadella has chosen? The End of SaaS as We Know It: Satya Nadella Foresees a Future Without Apps Amid a flurry of hype, Microsoft reorganizes entire dev team around AI
If I was the CTO of a SaaS built and run with Microsoft tools I’d be writing strongly worded email to my Microsoft developer relations associate asking what exactly the fuck is going.