Maybe some devs here can help me, I was recently promoted to “head of AI” at my work despite being very outwardly ambivalent towards it. So I’m struggling to figure out what would actually create value instead of just being an expensive waste of time but still satisfy the higher ups AI lust.

My first idea that I thought would actually be useful was just setting up the architecture for an actual analytics database for us and then let them explore it with metabase (then letting them use Claude for their wow factor of exploring it with AI or whatever).

But now I’m somewhat at a loss, so any insight you all have would be really helpful!

  • saplyngOP
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    19 hours ago

    Ahh sounds like you had a sort of ad block problem! Turn on an ad block, client doesn’t see any ads and then starts thinking “well maybe there just aren’t ads and you’re not doing anything” so you add a counter to show how many ads are blocked c:

    Your gut feeling is the exact same I had when I was reading the report, abysmal. Then I realized it was hosted on the internet without any auth to access the report and that feeling just got worse.

    From the very get go I tried to curb their expectations and be wary of spend because of the heavy token subsidation at the moment that’s expected to increase especially with the IPOs later this year. At the moment I think I’m going to treat this as a way to introduce systems I thought we needed and have the ability to increase spending to do so, including spending on AI if I think it would be worth while.

    Thanks for your input c: