A link shortener is such an easy thing to code, it's essentially one database table with a redirect. To add to that, there are many open source libraries to implement link shortening, including analytics and stuff. Even then Bitly and Rebrandly have customers (from their website) like Toyota, Cisco, Oracle, Monday.com, New York Times, etc.
Are these companies unable to build a link shortener? It's also so easy to migrate off shortener service. If they can and still choose to use these shortening services, there must be other reason. And that reason is that they simply don't want to. This has nothing to do with AI.
I run a software company and one of the reasons customers say they want to migrate from their homegrown spreadsheet is because the guy who built it left. A freaking spreadsheet!
Such blog posts and probably many comments here are the perfect answer to "Tell me you don't run a real business without telling me you don't run a real business"
To tackle this, I highly recommend the percentile technique from MIT paper, "A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions". [1]
If you are judging any dimension, say priority, then assigning percentile rating to a task (i.e where does this given task stand relative to all the others) can be quite helpful to overcome the "SuperEvenMoreImportantEmergencyBugfix" cases. This is what the article is also suggesting.
And if you end up assigning 90% percentile to more than 50% of the tasks, you know your judgement is wrong, and it can be corrected accordingly. And it can also be standardized much better across the organization. Everyone can now judge their own judgements.
Rating on multiple dimensions with low correlations important for your company, say signup rate, retention, security, etc. and adding them up is a good way to not miss something important. It's not important to assign weights. Equal weights is fine [2]
I'm finding this technique quite useful in deciding what to work on next with fewer doubts about their priority. I failed to make Trello work for this and use a spreadsheet.
Are these companies unable to build a link shortener? It's also so easy to migrate off shortener service. If they can and still choose to use these shortening services, there must be other reason. And that reason is that they simply don't want to. This has nothing to do with AI.
I run a software company and one of the reasons customers say they want to migrate from their homegrown spreadsheet is because the guy who built it left. A freaking spreadsheet!
Such blog posts and probably many comments here are the perfect answer to "Tell me you don't run a real business without telling me you don't run a real business"