AI Myths Are Warping Enterprise Decisions
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-07-19
Simon Willison shared an article arguing that **AI myths are eroding global decision-making**, focusing on irrational corporate hype around AI. The piece features several representative anonymous examples: - An executive drafted a tech strategy "entirely centered around AI" for an organization with **over $2 billion in annual revenue** without ever having genuinely used ChatGPT. - An engineer, to save their job, duplicated a Go repository and had AI rewrite the entire project in Zig. - In some companies, sales pitches and client executives' exaggerated expectations reinforce each other, making everyone afraid to admit that "100x productivity" is unrealistic, fearing it would offend the clients and impact contracts. The article argues that many AI decisions are driven not by actual efficacy, but by organizational face-saving, fear, and peer pressure.
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