The Cheeky PM. AI Is Eating Project Controls Consulting. Here Is When to Feed It and When to Pull It Back.
Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. With Ava, our practical PM in a lab coat, and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley running signal detection, this week we chase the loudest story in the industry: a services giant just paid a reported $390 million for an AI engineer, while the people actually building AI agents are quietly warning that most of that spend is wasted. Both are true. Here is how a working practitioner tells the difference.