AI washing is the new way to get funded.
\nA similar thing happened during the dot.com bubble in 2000.
\nCompanies added \u2018.com\u2019 to their name and the valuation doubled.
\nToday you connect a GPT API, put \u2018AI-powered\u2019 in the deck, and do the same thing.
\nDifferent era. Same game.
\nHere is what is actually happening inside most of these products:
\n\u27a1\ufe0f A chatbot sitting on top of a CRM that was never built for AI
\n\u27a1\ufe0f An automation layer on a workflow tool from another era.
\n\u27a1\ufe0f A GPT wrapper connected to a system that still runs batch processing overnight.
\nThat is not AI-native. It’s a bridge held together by connectors, plugins, and workarounds.
\nAnd every weak connection is a failure point waiting for real conditions.
\nThis is why so many AI products look impressive in a demo and struggle in production.
\nAs someone who has built and invested in technology businesses for over twenty years, what concerns me is that many companies have genuinely convinced themselves they are building AI products.
\nIf you are a founder building an AI product, or planning to, ask yourself\u00a0 how can you be truly AI-native.
\nThat question changes the data model, the workflows, the team, the speed of the whole system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AI washing is the new way to get funded.
\nA similar thing happened during the dot.com bubble in 2000.
\nCompanies added \u2018.com\u2019 to their name and the valuation doubled.
\nToday you connect a GPT API, put \u2018A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}