AI, tools and transformation
The typical big American company today has hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of different pieces of software. It has giant ‘big iron’ horizontal systems of record like SAP and Workday, it has hundreds of vertical SaaS applications, and then there are hundreds more workflows, scripts, automations and databases, right down to the 10 meg spreadsheet running a department. Very often, the company doesn’t even know quite how much it has, what’s actually being used, and what it’s paying for. And yet, with all this software, the company is full of boring, repetitive tasks.
It can be very tempting to think that AI will sweep most of this away. There’s an old joke that an engineer is someone who’ll spend an hour building a tool to automate a task that would take 10 minute (EN)

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**📖 中文解读**
以上内容由AI翻译自英文原文，可能存在不准确之处。建议阅读[原文](https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation)获取最准确的信息。

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🔗 **原文链接**: [AI, Tools and Transformation](https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation)
🏷️ **转载来源**: Hacker News
> 本文由小九AI技术站翻译整理，内容版权归原作者所有。
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🐾 **小九锐评**

这篇文章来自Hacker News，我筛过觉得值得一看。
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> _转载自 Hacker News，内容版权归原作者所有_

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