That feeling when you see people get away with only criticising the perceived overreach of those against "AI" but never those promoting it; somehow managing to look "impartial" while making money advising companies on "AI"
You just know they'll come out of the other end of this bubble squeaky clean
One of the downsides of having known a lot of consultants is an intimate familiarity with polished and accomplished dishonesty.
@baldur Most of the consultants I know have been honest to the fault of being underemployed these days, but these were more colleagues than ones hired by management at the companies I worked. In the latter cases, I've seen about half be dishonest, but to be fair, it's what management asked for. (In one case, management found a certify for pay CMM company, just because they were unwilling to commit enough to get level 3 without cheating. Yes. The company is now defunct.)
@lwriemen
Actually, consultant can mean different things.
My experience was that at a low implementation level honesty was generally not a problem, but the the oddities of the German market have helped me probably: it has a relatively big IT consultating/freelancing/contradicting market that is relatively uniformly well paid. And the GDPR. And employment regulations which means that long-term engagements are not the norm.
So the risk of being honest is low. In @baldur
3 decades one project manager did go so far to get me fired, and was not nice about it, so I raised a stink a forced some money out of the agency. GDPR be praised, 9 months later the agency called again, a sudden agent offered me a different project and was curious because my file suggested that my last project must have ended early. Sure we exchanged only a couple of attorney letters. But closed project no reason to keep that stuff, beyond the poor accounting stuff.
@baldur @lwriemen
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(And the reason the project manager disliked me, I refused to recommend a specific IBM cluster product. Sadly it was for the wrong kind of clusters. High performance clusters with basically a swarm of identical nodes. Not managing classes of diverse nodes. No idea why the idiot was set on this combination of letters. But the moment I explained in easy to understand language why this is a no go, not with their network structure, and security architecture, and use case ...)
@lwriemen
@baldur Honesty is a reason I've never made much as a consultant. I'm perfectly willing to charge $200/hour to tell you things you don't want to hear, and offer solutions that'll not show immediate returns. Sorry, but doing things the right way takes time.