AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Corporate AI mania is driving irrational decisions disconnected from actual tool experience
“I have seen an executive confess that they had never even used ChatGPT or any AI tool in their life, immediately after producing a technical strategy for an organisation with $2B+ in revenue which was entirely centered around AI.”
Consultant Nik Suresh documents how AI mania is corrupting enterprise decision-making, with executives building AI strategies without ever using AI tools and engineers gaming token leaderboards rather than doing real work. A particularly damning dynamic emerges where vendor executives cannot correct absurd 100x productivity claims from customer executives without risking contract cancellations, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of unchallenged hype. This matters because it illustrates how social and financial incentives are systematically suppressing honest AI assessment inside large organizations.