Why 95% of AI Projects Are Failing to Generate Returns

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The AI Bubble

What happens when your efficiency tool creates more work than it saves? Inside the AI bubble that’s starting to burst.

Look, I’ll be honest with you. I’m writing this on a Sunday afternoon, caffeinated beyond reason, after spending three hours this week cleaning up a mess that an “AI-powered” scheduling tool made of our team calendar. It turned our department’s carefully coordinated meeting schedule into what can only be described as temporal spaghetti.

So yeah, I have thoughts about this whole AI revolution thing.

The Uncomfortable Truth Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud

Remember when everyone was telling you to learn to code? Then it was “AI is going to take all the jobs”? Now we’re somehow in this weird middle zone where AI has taken some jobs, but mostly it’s just created a bunch of new, incredibly annoying work that nobody signed up for.

Here’s what’s actually happening in companies right now: They fire the customer service team, install an AI chatbot, watch customer satisfaction plummet, and then quietly hire back half the team to fix what the bot screws up. It’s like watching someone throw away their perfectly good bicycle to buy a…