Azeem Azhar's Las Vegas show of hands: two-thirds of IT leaders report AI results, but only eight of 160 would interrupt the CEO's vacation over them

Tech entrepreneur Azeem Azhar put two questions to 160 IT vice presidents gathered in Las Vegas, The Decoder reports. Asked who had measurable AI results, about two-thirds raised their hands. Asked who had results good enough to interrupt the CEO's summer vacation, eight did. The Decoder frames the gap between measurable and interrupt-the-boss as one of the central questions in the AI bubble debate: whether the pace of progress justifies the scale of investment. The evidence is a single conference show of hands, not a benchmark or survey methodology, so treat the numbers as an anecdote about executive sentiment rather than a measure of deployment outcomes.