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AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

50 points by samizdis

by al_borland

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Even if it did work well, with such a rough start and years of false promises, who is really going to trust it? Everyone who does seems to be riding the hype wave.

by metalman

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I have a job stalled right now, I believ because a jackass manager decided to get an opinion from AI on the design for a larger steel ramp structure, which is wrong, but the jackass has zero capability to respond now that I have asked for clarification as to which numbers were used in his "calculations". As of right now I have a whole string of jobs hung up because of errors in designs and blueprints that are bieng sent to me to fix, somehow, but with, again, zero capacity to make descisions, deal with the cold, hard reality of figuring out how to build something out of metal, something they need, now, but only one unit, which has certain indeterminate issue, requirement, or aquardness that will tie up and jam a whole large organisation, where quite litteraly a broken door handle repair, ends up getting bumped, up, and up, to the top, as there is no PO, part numbers, mission statements, or glad handers, and NOBODY wants it on THERE desk. so the front doors, on a major asset located on very prime real estate, sit there flapping, and getting a hunk of chain wrapped around them for months, and now they cant figure out how to pay for having that, suddenly fixed. if I was less busy, I would be angry but it is turning out to be an amusing and bemusing viewpoint of the lurching ,jerking, debaucle brewing itself up.up↑ there

by jjk166

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Pretty big jump from "we don't yet know the best ways to use this new tool" to "the tool doesn't work well"

by conception

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This is a hilarious article.
“It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless.”
“This magic that literally didn’t exist two years ago in more than a toy state is moving at such a rapid rate that it couldn’t even reproduce sqlite three months ago and only got better enough in those weeks to produce a bad version of sqlite! Clearly useless! It has no value, no one is using it to do any work and won’t get better over the next three months or three years!”
An amazing take.