alt Hacker NewsHappening in the private sector too. Something like 10% of US companies are actually using AI productively, and 42% killed their GenAI pilots in 2024.
Happening in the private sector too. Something like 10% of US companies are actually using AI productively, and 42% killed their GenAI pilots in 2024.
That 42% number is telling but not for the reason most people cite it. The gap between "impressive demo" and "production system that actually saves money" is enormous. Most of those killed pilots weren't bad ideas, they were bad execution. No feedback loops, no way to measure if the AI was actually doing the job correctly at scale, and no plan for what happens when it starts failing silently.
The 10% that stuck probably just had better engineering discipline around it, not better AI.