Their company does data projects. That plus context makes me think they’re talking about internal work process automation type of work, although it also seems like they’re talking about conversational interfaces (chatbots).

I completely buy the “emperor’s new clothes” argument for work process automation. I’m surprised they don’t address AI-assisted engineering, which seems to be going positively for a lot of folks (although I have doubts about its sustainability). I disagree about the success of chatbots, if the problem is narrowly-defined and chosen properly. My previous company built a conversational interface to a vector database and saw good results. (Although, arguably, the vector database was the real magic, and a traditional UI would have been faster and more accurate.)

In general, I think OP is more right than wrong, though, particularly about the AI mania and unrealistic expectations sweeping the C-suite.

They run a consulting company called "Hermit Tech". Their websites has an olde style font.

They boast about "ancient techniques" from books written prior to the year 2000

> For non-executive management who might be struggling to deliver things that feel beyond their control, we have ancient techniques (see: books written between 1986 and 1999) to turn your team into the envy of the organisation, and we can drop in directly to get your team the resources it needs to save a struggling project.

So yeah, of course these people hate AI and everything about it.

No serious company is reaching out to these people for help with their AI project.

i feel like the useful applications of AI get silently integrated into workflows.

the ill-conceived moonshots by and for a non-technical audience get labelled as "AI projects/initiatives" and they fail.