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I have never seen positive results from a large consulting company like McKinsey or Accenture who build AI for you In the last 3 years I’ve worked with over 25 companies who did this, and every single time they get an over complicated solution nobody understands coupled with a mountain of slides filled with unnecessary jargon like “knowledge graph ontology” Every single time the solution is to tear it down and only add complexity incrementally when there is a measurable reason to do so. Big consulting has incentives that run the other way so you have an ever lasting dependency on them. I can’t see how deploying this model en masse is going to create value. I think it works for Palantir because that approach is markedly different. People seem to have cargo culted the term forward deployed engineer without fully internalizing it. See https://www.barry.ooo/posts/fde-culture
@HamelHusain "tear it down and only add complexity incrementally when there is a measurable reason to do so" preach!
Yep. We are ripping out, simplifying, and scaling down this type of BS with Amp Labs AND actually delivering and executing on the higher-order business outcomes. Plus, we are building up AI capability in parallel (hiring, training, and enabling) for the customer so, when all is said and done, they not only get what they originally wanted from the large mgmt consultancies, but they are able to continue the work and modify it themselves going forward.
I have never seen positive results from a large consulting company like McKinsey or Accenture who build AI for you In the last 3 years I’ve worked with over 25 companies who did this, and every single time they get an over complicated solution nobody understands coupled with a mountain of slides filled with unnecessary jargon like “knowledge graph ontology” Every single time the solution is to tear it down and only add complexity incrementally when there is a measurable reason to do so. Big consulting has incentives that run the other way so you have an ever lasting dependency on them. I can’t see how deploying this model en masse is going to create value. I think it works for Palantir because that approach is markedly different. People seem to have cargo culted the term forward deployed engineer without fully internalizing it. See https://www.barry.ooo/posts/fde-culture