COO of multi-billion-dollar manufacturer: all big-data LLM pilots cancelled
richdotca · x · 2026-09-22
The post relays takeaways from the COO of a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing company speaking to major French PE/VC funds: efficiency is the ultimate goal; all big-data LLM pilots have been cancelled across all verticals, with no clear use cases or productivity spikes; and vision is the only vertical where he and industry counterparts know value can be created, so they plan to double down on it.
A first-hand enterprise observation that counters the prevailing AI hype narrative.
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