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My experience is that management consultants love AI; they're oddly blind to it compared to other professions, and they're the first to start using it everywhere. The immediate surface appearance of quality is catnip to them.

This should make everyone even more suspicious of the management consultancies claiming to employ the smartest people in the world.

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It's because "the immediate surface appearance of quality" is all that management consultants are capable of themselves.

They cannot perceive the difference.

^^ The truth, the truth!

Second level is that their target market is top management that are also incapable of anything except "the immediate surface appearance".

> This should make everyone even more suspicious of the management consultancies claiming to employ the smartest people in the world.

who thinks they're the smartest? how long have you been in the working world?

they're there to present a veneer of credibility to allow executives to make risky moves or justify ugly choices.

you're a executive in a F500 looking at blowing $200M of shareholder cash on something -- do your due diligence and get someone "smart" to tell you what's what.

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