BOFH: Cross-Department AI Pitches Are Easier to Swallow with a Pint in Hand
The Register, Friday, July 10th, 2026
The BOFH and PFY endure absurd cross-department AI pitches at the pub, with chaotic results.
In this BOFH column, the narrator and PFY attend a cross-department AI pitch session at a pub, using mock detection gadgets to spot tedious colleagues proposing absurd AI schemes.
Users pitch things like AI-controlled air conditioning via Excel macros and AI that offers constant positive reinforcement, prompting jokes about a lift praising your button-pressing. After heavy drinking to endure the presentations, the pair vaguely recall coding something for the PA system.
The next morning the Boss angrily reports the toilet now offers encouragement over the building announcement system, satirizing corporate AI enthusiasm versus reality.