--- title: "Revenge of The Business Idiot" url: https://daily.dev/posts/revenge-of-the-business-idiot-q4odzoaen source_url: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot type: article source: "Where's Your Ed At" published: 2026-05-26T16:48:14.819Z updated: 2026-05-26T16:48:43.755Z tags: ["ai", "llm", "openai", "anthropic"] reading_time: 55 upvotes: 41 comments: 6 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Revenge of The Business Idiot **[Where's Your Ed At](https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured)** · 55 min read · 41 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary A scathing critique of what the author calls 'Business Idiots' — executives and managers disconnected from actual work who have embraced generative AI as a tool that validates their laziness and enables grifting. LLMs are described as perfectly suited to impress people who don't do real work because they produce convincing-looking outputs without delivering genuine value. The piece argues the AI industry is financially unsustainable: OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin in Q1 2026, Anthropic's profitability claims rely on accounting tricks, Uber burned its entire AI budget in four months with no measurable ROI, and Salesforce marketed AI products that don't exist. NVIDIA is accused of circular financing by investing in its own customers. The author contends the entire AI boom is the largest misallocation of capital in history, propped up by a compliant media, credulous executives, and venture capitalists who don't scrutinize fundamentals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@hanzo** · 8 upvotes > The Business Idiot is such a perfect term. Somewhere, a VP probably just asked ChatGPT to summarize this article for their quarterly strategy deck. **@petermrozek** · 2 upvotes > > LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how _powerful_ AI is and that you _simply must use it_ are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are _impressed_ with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards. > > This is going to ruffle a lot of feathers. 😁 If they ever get to that part, because damn, this is long. It made me regain my attention span from the... **@outofthevoid** · 1 upvotes > What a clear and open take on this ongoing shitshow... thanks! **@tadz** · 0 upvotes > Analysis shows 98% of your blog post is AI-generated... > > ![image.png](https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--2dmxJ9Aj--/f_auto/v1779898518/ugc/content_7c351660-cb1c-4284-bffc-c4711b4f0df7?_a=BAMAMiWQ0) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Premium: The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble 3.0](https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-the-ai-bubble-3-0-1ycmgiy9h) · Where's Your Ed At · 6 upvotes · 1 comments - [I Will Never Respect A Website](https://daily.dev/posts/i-will-never-respect-a-website-rhddjqrh3) · Where's Your Ed At · 6 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/revenge-of-the-business-idiot-q4odzoaen)