Hoag: Current AI adoption is not even at Web 1.0 maturity
Andrew Hoag · Empowering Work with AI: Inside Dash Labs' Vision of Workstation · Nov 11, 2025 · at 6:15
Andrew Hoag explains why non-technical enterprise workers struggle with AI adoption and jargon.
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“And so we're at such an early stage of this, right? We're at the, you know, web one dot O like not even web one dot O version of this. And people are still figuring out HTTP and you know, what a query parameter is, is like, I'm dating myself now, but like the early web and the internet.”
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