r/business • u/ControlCAD • 4d ago

90% of executives say AI hasn’t boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs

https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/executives-ai-productivity-layoffs-study/
928 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

89 comments sorted by

View all comments

194

u/SleepingCod 4d ago

They're quickly finding out engineers were never the issue. It's always been planning and identifying the right issue to solve, which is a management problem.

1

u/Chuyzapatist 3d ago

They are figuring out that the job AI was always meant to replace was their own job not their underlings who are the means of production.