For example, Microsoft 365 Copilot. A company might get a significant discount on the price per user for that SKU. What does that translate to? OpenAI is the actual brain behind it. So who ends up getting the money at the end?

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/27/the-next-phase-o...

OpenAI needs Microsoft's infra for training and market penetration. MS needs something AI to slap onto their products until they develop their own in-house.

Now, whether it's actually necessary or not for an enterprise is a question. There's a lot of FOMO spending. Maybe 5-10% of your workforce are programmers that need great AI. The rest of the admin, finance, other people? TBD.

What we're seeing across the board is every software company tossing AI onto their name or sales pitch and no one understanding what that actually means. But we will spend money on it because of FOMO.

I really question if we're reaching the end of the hype cycle to the point. I wish I were brave enough to put money on it. It feels like there was a command from up top to 'do something with AI' and leadership is scambling for some resume-building projects vs doing the hard work they should've done the past two years at a people and process level.

Sure but also throw in whether that driver is staring at their phone, distracting by something else, etc. I have been a skeptic of all this stuff for a while but riding in a Waymo in heavy fog changed my mind when questioning how well I or another driver would've done at that time of day and with those conditions.

Edit: Not 'allowed' but people do it constantly. Regular drivers, delivery drivers, city workers, construction trucks, etc. There may be laws but very little enforcement.

I still find it fascinating that we developed this human system, with expectations that are still in play, even if some aspects become less and less relevant, it's still an important tool beyond being dependent on technology. Same with lending libraries. A few things we should cherish that have real ethics in this lets-monetize-everything world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)

Many of the writers on the show have only ever worked in show businesses, which is its own mutation of work culture. Not many have actual worked in stereotypical corporate work situations.

Mike Judge (Office Space, Silicon Valley, etc) probably comes closest having started in corporate life and made a transition.

It's only been in effect for a short while, then we had COVID. It took them two decades to even get it live.

Some state licenses don't expire for 10 years. Americans will avoid trips to the DMV until it's absolutely necessary to go. YMMV on if your local one is well-run and efficient or a madhouse with long wait times.