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HarHarVeryFunnytoday at 3:52 PM0 repliesview on HN

As the saying goes "figures can't lie, but liars can figure".

If you want to report productivity gains or cost savings from some initiative (increased AI usage or whatever) and need some stats to point to, then you just point to whatever is working, for whatever reason, and attribute the success to the new initiative.

In a company I used to work for, one manager, when pushed to increase machine learning usage (a few years back, before ML became AI), just renamed his product from foo to foo-ML (with ZERO ML usage), and reported how well it is working. He has since been promoted twice.