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You don't have AI. There are 30 uncoordinated ChatGPTs.
then in a meeting with the CEO. It shows me the screen: ChatGPT open. Smile. “Ricardo, we have finally entered the age of AI.” I take a deep breath. I choose my words carefully. This isn't the first time we've talked about AI — in previous diagnoses, the topic had already appeared. But saying it there, in a formal meeting, with the board present and the budget for the next cycle on the agenda, has another weight. "Maybe not yet, the way you're thinking. You have 30 uncoordinated ChatGPTs — what the technology market today calls 30 personal agents without organizational coordination. It's not exactly the same thing as having AI in the company."
I sit in the meeting and someone proposes, with conviction, exactly the decision that was discarded two years ago. It's not bad faith. He's the new person in the position. Look at the numbers, do the math that anyone would do, and arrive at the obvious path. The obvious path that we have already tested, that was expensive, that we recorded somewhere — and no one in the room remembers where.