Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
I&#x27;ve never interacted directly with IBM, but I remember about 2 years ago, they had a talk at the Akamai Edge conference about how they dealt with bloated cookies. The company I work for has the same problem so I sat in to see what their solution was.<p>The problem they were having is that all the various IBM lines of business added so much garbage onto the client&#x27;s cookie, that eventually their pages would stop loading because they wouldn&#x27;t be able to parse the cookie.<p>The &#x27;solution&#x27; is to detect when that&#x27;s about to happen, and redirect the client to a page that warns them that their cookie is too big (because IBM made it too big) and give them a button to delete their cookie. They then continue to start over and stuff more garbage into the fresh cookie.<p>That kind of problem solving pretty much made me lose faith in them successfully doing much of anything anymore.