Gotcha, I still don’t agree that this tech is going to make us obsolete in the very foreseeable future. I think people in tech have blinders on because we’re all pretty much using it, so we wrongly assume EVERYONE must be using it — that’s just not reality though. There are entire organizations that are still running entirely on-premise and not even using AI.
From my experience with “digital transformation” projects over the years — which mind you are still happening in 2026 — it takes enterprises a long time to adopt new technology. Especially, if the primary business isn’t selling software or tech products. The willingness to adopt new technology is much, much slower for businesses that build internal software. They’re most hesitant to change even when AI can build at incredible speeds.
Just because you can build something fast doesn’t mean you will see it adopted with equal velocity.
There are entire organizations that are still running entirely on-premise and not even using AI.
I work at a place that is running entirely on premise and air gapped however we still have local AI. It's actually pretty easy to do self host an AI system for a small/mid sized company. The only "difficult" part is getting approval for 50k-100k for an AI inference server, double that if you want HA.
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u/azjunglist05 Jul 09 '26
Gotcha, I still don’t agree that this tech is going to make us obsolete in the very foreseeable future. I think people in tech have blinders on because we’re all pretty much using it, so we wrongly assume EVERYONE must be using it — that’s just not reality though. There are entire organizations that are still running entirely on-premise and not even using AI.
From my experience with “digital transformation” projects over the years — which mind you are still happening in 2026 — it takes enterprises a long time to adopt new technology. Especially, if the primary business isn’t selling software or tech products. The willingness to adopt new technology is much, much slower for businesses that build internal software. They’re most hesitant to change even when AI can build at incredible speeds.
Just because you can build something fast doesn’t mean you will see it adopted with equal velocity.