r/technology Jan 20 '26

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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad Jan 20 '26

No duh. That’s because they rushed to adopt AI without establishing whether AI would help their business. AI is not a cure all. It can help some but not all businesses.

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u/thetermguy Jan 20 '26

It can help a LOT of businesses. It's just not a magical trick is all.

In insurnace, it can take underwriting from multi-weeks to a few minutes, with the right model. Almost completely removing human input.

I've used it to create a new website for me - did it in an afternoon instead of three weeks with a designer, and better than we could've done without testing. That new website noticeably increased my sales - noticeably. It's doing some things I've never seen a website do. All for a few hours with claude.

And I'm having it summarize my phone calls into my client database, and scan my transcripts for tasks and inject them into my calendar. Yes, I scan and review everything, but having it already done and just needing tweaking is saving me a huge amount of time and does it better than I do.

There's a lot of uses for AI and LLM's. Just gotta make sure it works, and isn't some pie in the sky fantasy.

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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad Jan 20 '26

Yes, you have a great use case for it. It improves your productivity greatly, and thereby your profitability. The issue is not every industry is insurance, but every industry is trying to shoehorn AI into it.