Counter intuitive, but sometimes dev productivity revolves around actively not shipping things or making sure you drive initiatives that are purely a product of

Counter intuitive, but sometimes dev productivity revolves around actively not shipping things or making sure you drive initiatives that are purely a product of “banana measuring contests” to the ground. “Hey let’s ship this AI chat bot I heard about at a conference”. How about we save those hundreds of thousands of dollars that we’ll spend on training a sub par chatbot that will result in frustrated users who will leave with whatever limited revenue we get from them.