alt Hacker NewsThere’s some selection bias involved especially based on their marking, but you’re misreading what they are saying.
> even within projects that we have observed in passing while doing totally unrelated work.
The kind of companies with failing projects seem to be very bad at using AI. That’s different from the normal mix of success and failures at most large companies.
Companies with projects that are doing well don't try to hire consultants who specialized in saving failing projects.
No company with a good AI strategy is going to go to the Hermit Tech website where text written in Ye Olde Font explains that they'll use ancient techniques from the 80s and 90s to make your software work and thinks, "These are the right people for our AI job!"
These people are trying to carve out a niche for themselves as being anti-modern, anti-AI, and being contrarian consultants that you can bring in when you want some external consultants to agree with you in a very specific way.