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🔮 Does AI make you dumb? And why our forecasts suck #576

Plus, jobs in high demand, ByteDance, anti-drone nets++

Azeem Azhar
May 31, 2026
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Hi all,

This week, we published a framework to explain why individuals are getting more productive with AI, but firms often are not. Make this your weekend reading.

If you want me to speak to your board about this, now is the time to book me for the fall.

🔮 Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line

Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren
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May 27
🔮 Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line

I had tea with a senior exec at a well-known public tech company last month. She has about a thousand engineers working for her, and nearly every one of them works with Claude Code. Productivity is up for individuals, but she doesn’t see proportional gains at the organization level. As she put it to me: “1+1+1+1=1.5”.

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