This is so common in many types of business, and usually a very difficult point to articulate so thank you for that. It's something to be shown to those ringing the death-knell for programmers, artists, and the like.
Those death-knell types seemingly aren't aware of what day to day operations looks like and how AI makes a great tool, but doesn't necessarily deal with the very human factors of whims, uncertainty, reactive business mentalities and the phenomenon that is best summarised by this webcomic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
In my field they like to call this "hurry up and wait", a nonsensical but fitting description that summarises everything from changing scope to the unjust imbalance of time between the principal and the agent.
(There is a comment further down which suggests that we could just train AI to deal with this variability, I hope that's humour... sweet summer child thinks you can train AI to predict the future.)
Those death-knell types seemingly aren't aware of what day to day operations looks like and how AI makes a great tool, but doesn't necessarily deal with the very human factors of whims, uncertainty, reactive business mentalities and the phenomenon that is best summarised by this webcomic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
In my field they like to call this "hurry up and wait", a nonsensical but fitting description that summarises everything from changing scope to the unjust imbalance of time between the principal and the agent.
(There is a comment further down which suggests that we could just train AI to deal with this variability, I hope that's humour... sweet summer child thinks you can train AI to predict the future.)