This is close to being an appeal to authority. These companies - and IBM is the classic case of this - are the last to pick up on new trends and are usually bli

This is close to being an appeal to authority. These companies - and IBM is the classic case of this - are the last to pick up on new trends and are usually blindsided by new technologies. If AI was perfectly superhuman IBM's CEO is still going to be one of the the last people in the tech world to pick up on it. He'd hopefully be ahead of other industries. Startup CTOs are the people deciding how much code is going to get written by AI. They're going to be building products in new, untested ways. Mostly failing, some succeeding. Technical growth doesn't come from established majors. The entire AI boom left Google doing a cartoonish impression of being run over by a gaggle of bystanders heading to the next big thing and they thought they were actively researching and leading the field of AI. As news of what IBM is doing he's a leading authority, but following IBM's exploits is going to be skating to where the puck was last year on a good day.