It's Never Been Easier to Do Too Much⁠↗

Teams are bolting AI onto everything they can, often without slowing down to define which problems the tools should actually solve. The result can be what some researchers now call “workslop”—AI-generated output that looks productive but doesn’t actually move anything forward. More dashboards no one looks at. More summaries no one reads. More content, less signal.

nothing could go in the top of the funnel until something else came out the bottom. In two years, they cut the number of ongoing projects by more than half, which increased the number of projects they actually got done.