Founder survey: companies' AI spend keeps climbing yet nobody cares, and eval suites are missing
mgee-ai · reddit · 2026-10-18
A SF-based founder reports two patterns from talking to multiple companies: AI spend is rising everywhere but nobody seems concerned about controlling it, and most teams lack sufficient eval suites or training environments when making changes to agent harnesses. A discussion starter on the gap between adoption and engineering rigor.
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