Companies are still misreading LLM workflows, and ROI is hard to prove
teropa · x · 2026-07-25
The thread argues that companies are still getting AI adoption wrong: natural-language interfaces feel intuitive, but LLMs are not humans and have very different strengths and failure modes.
- Simply giving everyone access and asking them to “figure it out” has not produced reliable workflows.
- Many companies are spending heavily but cannot measure outcomes.
- Where ROI is measurable, some are seeing engineering spend rise while output only improves modestly, with the poster citing a 10–30% curve lift as the kind of result that is already surprising.
- The core point: natural language is a deceptively easy interface, but productive AI use still needs deliberate workflow design, not just broad access.
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