Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
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The "GenAI is Failing" Narrative: Let's Unpack This In today's rapidly evolving AI landscape, it's easy to fall into common interpretive traps. Let me share some powerful insights on two "examples" being circulated as evidence that businesses are souring on GenAI.
Example #1: The Insurance Ad
"We still have humans" in an insurance commercial isn't evidence GenAI is failing — it's actually evidence GenAI is everywhere. Here's why this matters: You don't pay for differentiation against something nobody is doing The ad presupposes the saturation it claims to refute Think of it like a "no GMO" sticker — it only exists because the alternative is mainstream
Example #2: The Job Ad
A job ad requesting "ability to develop software without AI assistance" is a competence floor, not a policy ban. Let's break this down:It's not about prohibiting tools — it's about ensuring fundamentals
Same principle as asking a cashier to do mental arithmetic 🧮
Here's the kicker: the shops writing that line are often the very same ones running Cursor and Claude Code internally 🤯
The Real Issue: Sample Size
Sample n=2. That's not a trend — that's two anecdotes wearing a trenchcoat.
Key TakeawayTwo of the most anti-AI possible readings of ambiguous evidence isn't trendspotting — it's confirmation-bias mining. Full stop.
What are your thoughts? Have you noticed similar patterns in your industry? Drop a comment below
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What is notable is that local businesses tend to be behind the times when it comes to adoption of newer tech. GenAI seems to be the exception.
This business in particular is a small to medium sized business with contracts to bigger and even international and publicly traded companies. They’re fintech mainly.
Mind you, this is Puerto Rico. The market is super small.
The Iran war price surge is being felt on top of the computing fees, the sky high electric bills… and things like the Jones Act are all interacting in the background.
Something’s gotta give eventually.
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 god, I really needed this as a ray of hope. Thank you
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Mind you, this is Puerto Rico. The market is super small.
The Iran war price surge is being felt on top of the computing fees, the sky high electric bills… and things like the Jones Act are all interacting in the background.
Something’s gotta give eventually.
And…. Last but not least.
Having an unstable power grid goes beyond losing this month’s groceries. It is the surprise bill everyone faces. These affect decisions like having diesel generators, battery backups and solar panels.
The people running comms towers are facing those decisions too. Which leads to crappy internet connections. And you know what happens when your internet connection is bad, right?
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And…. Last but not least.
Having an unstable power grid goes beyond losing this month’s groceries. It is the surprise bill everyone faces. These affect decisions like having diesel generators, battery backups and solar panels.
The people running comms towers are facing those decisions too. Which leads to crappy internet connections. And you know what happens when your internet connection is bad, right?
Anyway. This is why I’m getting into Meshcore. 🤪
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 This is beautiful. I'm so happy so see something like this. 🥹
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 Holy shit. A dream come true...
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Anyway. This is why I’m getting into Meshcore. 🤪
If you're facing a large region with unstable internet you might want to check out 802.11ah HaLow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
It's using the same unlicensed 900Mhz band as meshcore, but carries IP traffic at tens to hundreds of megabit over a kilometer or two using omnidirectional antennas.
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If you're facing a large region with unstable internet you might want to check out 802.11ah HaLow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
It's using the same unlicensed 900Mhz band as meshcore, but carries IP traffic at tens to hundreds of megabit over a kilometer or two using omnidirectional antennas.
@alienghic interesting. Thank you. I’ll try to get up to speed
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
If you feel comfortable sharing, where is "local"? One of my kids is an unemployed entry level engineer.
Edit: Oh, Puerto Rico. I'll suggest it to him.
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If you feel comfortable sharing, where is "local"? One of my kids is an unemployed entry level engineer.
Edit: Oh, Puerto Rico. I'll suggest it to him.
@firebreathingduck Puerto Rico.
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
Ability to do the job without AI is a fundamental skill.
The ability to use AI to help you do the job more quickly and more effectively is also an increasingly useful skill.
But without the fundamental skill you're just shoveling slop.
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 @howtophil this is one of 4 main points on the draft website for a small business I’m trying to set up (reviewing financial and governance documents and providing an overview).
I will *never* use AI for something like that.
I do not understand the risk assessment (or lack thereof) of the whole AI using market, let alone the critical ethical issues on so many fronts.
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 "the inevitable future"
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 @whitequark the world is healing 🥺
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 At Cambridge station, a couple of months back, I saw an ad for a bank promising that they didn't use AI to handle calls and that you'd always be able to talk to a human.
They were fairly up market, but that helps push the perception that chatbots are a sign of a cheap / low-quality brand, which is an association I'm very happy for people to build.
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