AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

Ludicity (a pseudonymous consultant) argues that AI hype has captured large organisations in a self-reinforcing cycle of dishonesty and waste. Drawing on ~300 client meetings and 18 months of observation, they report a 0% success rate across AI projects their team has seen.

The core dynamic: executives cannot admit AI investments aren't paying off without undermining their own credibility, their customers' executives, or their promotion case. So they don't — and the silence compounds across the supply chain. Many public AI productivity claims are "untrue as a matter of brute fact." Engineers learn to AI-wash their work to avoid management suspicion; skeptics risk being fired while true believers are protected.

A striking anecdote describes Snowflake Cortex demos: even with explicit warnings that the tool would produce wrong answers ~8% of the time, every client demanded to buy it immediately, displacing millions in non-AI savings.

The essay closes with practical survival advice, including anonymous polling to surface honest opinions, avoiding group discussions of AI projects, and — for those trapped in organisations that demand AI labels on every funding request — lying about a $10,000 chatbot to get important work approved. "History will forgive you. Save that puppy."

The author has rejected all AI implementation work and reports their contracts would be unaffected if OpenAI collapsed tomorrow.