Originally Posted by
ancman
I’m not disagreeing with you at all about the broader potential of AI. To me, the greater threat is Delta falling behind the competition’s use of AI (under current leadership). We have a management team that has failed at its implementation and execution of IT strategy at nearly every opportunity over the past two decades.
Rotations have been software generated, based on data driven parameters, for many years. Are there efficiencies that the company can still gain there? Of course. But the company gets closer to hitting its limit on PWA value extraction every day, short of outright violating it. I just don’t see AI rotation construction as being our biggest threat, provided we hold the line on defending and improving our contract.
DALPA definately needs to get out ahead of this. Just like the optimizer, we can get in on the ground floor or we can play catch up. We generally deal with the operationally clunky DBMS stuff and see all the flaws. The real software development and AI stuff is more about the customer and business efficiency. Just as the AE software has come on line, there will be a generational shift in how, and how fast things are done. The ability to adapt in real time will change the landscape and the only restrictions to these new powerful tools will be the PWA. Maybe, depending on the degree to which it is ignored and reinterpreted. I can see the arguement already: "that was envisioned in the old scheduling ecosystem and this new stuff means it's not applicable"