Thread regarding SAS Institute layoffs

@21e+1jvxgynz2 Is the master of anonymous hot air on irrelevant websites.

SAS is the master of vapourware! Software that does not exist

Sounds like typical buzzword bingo, but it's hard to say. At my large customer org, we have demand and experiments with LLM for addressing unstructured data (text) use cases. We also have users explaining they want to chat with AI to go analyze data faster - bypassing SQL, analytics dashboards, analysts and data scientists, etc. Not great for vendors or for us employees. Probably the LLMs will all be able to do that well enough, but maybe an ML vendor still can address some of those opportunities by integrating with the LLMs. Maybe it's just done with LLM and the data platform and no BI or ML vendors are needed. Maybe it's just done with the LLMs. It will all change quickly. Better put something real behind the buzzword bingo.

"...The unreal engine allows them to build a GUI for users that is much better than what SAS has ever built in-house...."

That's not true! The Art Department, which is safe, hand-picked interns over the years so that SAS could build world class GUI's for functions that customers access with API's. Are you saying they did not pick the cream of the crop?

We have world class marketing

We have “world-class AI”?

The unreal engine allows them to build a GUI for users that is much better than what SAS has ever built in-house. It’s unclear if sas actually built the GUI or if the customer/partner team did. I’m sure the application is just using API calls to the SAS platform for analytics to be injected into the application.
It’s unlikely sas built agents themselves. They are probably just using the Microsoft agents via their partnership with Microsoft. So, at the end of the day, SAS is still just doing SAS… nothing new.

"For Developers, by Developers". That statement was all you need to remember.

There were lots of demos and real customers showcasing how they are using SAS tech

Was their any demos or just talk?

All tech companies exaggerate their capabilities.

BH is doing his job. He's being paid to prepare his company to IPO, and these buzzwords support that goal.

If you ask me, the quote you're highlighting is typical of what you see and hear at SAS Innovate - a talking head spewing tech-speak gobbledygook generously sprinkled with as many of the latest industry buzz words as possible, with the sole purpose to impress. This isn't unique to SAS, and it seems to me that this trend of impressive sounding, indecipherable tech-speak jargon is only getting worse in this new frontier of AI everything.