Accenture sells AI transformation to thousands of clients while quietly telling its own employees they get a fraction of what some were already spending. The internal memo reveals a tension at the heart of every major consulting firm racing to profit from AI.
Ooh, it’s the : build a prototype story!
Dev, ok here’s the 2 week built prototype, slammed together wildly fast, no architecture, no seatbelts. Don’t push it in a demo.
Manager: this Looks like a finalized project! Except a) and b), fix that, you got a day.
Dev: we should productize it, to make it a solid product, it takes 3 months, then I can add a and b without it starting to smoke when used.
Manager: No, I already shipped it.
Oh wow, in your hypothetical, the DevOps manager is an incompetent moron. AI Agents will never recover from this one.