Brilliant breakdown on the architectural limitations baked into most AI vendors today. The point about Band 2 companies slapping chat interfaces onto dashboards and calling it "decision intelligence" is painfully accurate. I've seen restaurant groups burn through budgets on these chat wrappers only to realize the underlying forecasting is just LLM pattern matching, not actual quantitatve models. The baking analogy nails why this matters for long-term stack decisions too, once you've mixed that batter with the wrong ingredients, no amount of frosting fixes it.
Brilliant breakdown on the architectural limitations baked into most AI vendors today. The point about Band 2 companies slapping chat interfaces onto dashboards and calling it "decision intelligence" is painfully accurate. I've seen restaurant groups burn through budgets on these chat wrappers only to realize the underlying forecasting is just LLM pattern matching, not actual quantitatve models. The baking analogy nails why this matters for long-term stack decisions too, once you've mixed that batter with the wrong ingredients, no amount of frosting fixes it.
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