Executives at their customers were saying absurd things about achieving 100x productivity, and this meant that if any executive at the vendor said that these gains were not plausible, it would undermine the credibility of the customer’s executive, be perceived as an attack (or heresy), and possibly result in an enterprise contract cancellation.
If they could all admit the truth at once there might be some hope, but there is no way to coordinate that event.
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making