Gergely Orosz says Gartner's AI and tech forecasts are consistently wrong
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Software engineer and writer Gergely Orosz says Gartner's views on AI and modern technology are consistently wrong.
In an X post on October 21, 2026, he cites Gartner's reported listing of IBM and AWS as top coding harnesses ahead of Cursor and Anthropic. He also says he is surprised anyone pays for Gartner's research.
The post responds to a CNBC report in which a Gartner analyst warned about the AI neocloud build-out. Orosz quotes investor appenz, who says portfolio companies are struggling to find compute capacity. The post does not include Gartner's response.
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