I predict that for a while, corporations will lie about using AI more than they actually do, just because it's still being hyped. But then everyone will stop giving a fuck.
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We already never really gave a shit at the companies I worked at so far. Bosses love spewing shit about AI, telling us to use it and find out more about it, especially coding AIs, but we often try them out for a bit with serious tasks then revert back to only ever using them for formatting or research assistance. My colleagues tried and failed several times to use them for tasks involving non-trivial logic and it never worked, even with paid Cursor or Gemini.
Predict
Can already confirm they are doing that.
The executives are building dog shit unrealizable tools right now that nobody uses. It's purely for the stock holders.
We marked ourselves as "AI powered" . Nobody is using our AI tools after they go live. We can see the logs.
Can already confirm they are doing that.
Well yeah, I guess I meant more that this trend is increasing.
We marked ourselves as “AI powered” . Nobody is using our AI tools after they go live. We can see the logs.
Did using the buzzword help at all with shareholders or customers though?
The executives are building dog shit unrealizable tools right now that nobody uses
Don't even need to build them sometimes IMO. Friend pointed out that the excellent notetaking app she was using claimed to use AI and then she found this comment on reddit from one of the people behind it:
While FlowSavvy's auto-scheduling is considered AI in the broad sense that it performs complex tasks that mimic human intelligence (and is exactly what people are looking for when they're looking for "AI scheduling"), it does not ML/DL. Instead, FlowSavvy uses a carefully-designed deterministic algorithm to schedule tasks predictably, reliably, and quickly.
Everyone seems to be super happy with it as an AI auto-scheduler lol
Did using the buzzword help at all with shareholders or customers though?
It has helped a LOT with the stock price. With customers? Not even a little. We work with high end clients, customized solutions for every client. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that 100% of our clients have asked for us to remove the AI features.
Don't even need to build them sometimes IMO
LMAO so AI is just an IF statement.
That's funny.
Good. So when will the bubble burst?
My fear is that the US and Chinese governments will be propping up AI long after it's shelf life because we're in a mini economic cold war with them and nobody wants to get "left behind" in this ridiculous AI race to the bottom.
Literal trillions of dollars are going into AI related initiatives. But the bubble can't burst unless the money dries up and I don't see that happening with the current regimes.
I just realized that the GenAI craze is like the modern version of Ronald Reagan's Star Wars project, but somehow both countries got fooled into pouring money into a colossal folly.
I just realized that the GenAI craze is like the modern version of Ronald Reagan's Star Wars project, but somehow both countries got fooled into pouring money into a colossal folly.
That's a good point. I was listening to a YouTube podcast on the topic and the hosts did say international competition is the primary reason for developing AI. US rationale is that even if they want to regulate AI, the "bad guy" won't so it's better to develop it first before the bad guys. They made the same comparison with the Manhattan Project and the race to beat the Axis from developing nukes.
But not at US government contractors! Out of nowhere we have a version of ChatGPT and a new hire that is actively working on getting AI to do everything 🙄
It's like having an incompetent assistant. Worth it kinda I guess? Just don't give them anything important.
I work in a tech department for a super old company and we are give pretty much all the professional AI softwares and custom LLMs.
My AI usage has gone up but not really for what you think. I use it mostly for thoughts consolidation and pagination. As someone with ADHD. My thoughts are scattered and often my reports and presentations are hard to comprehend. AI has been pretty helpful putting my thoughts into a format that is easier to consume for people not on the spectrum.
I essentially dictate my thoughts in probably the most scattered brain way and the AI does a great job putting my thoughts into words and even presentations.
In my previous jobs without AI, I struggled with putting my thoughts on paper. Now I literally a top performer at work.
I worked in logistics and there was a software company working on routing software for the company before I left, this was about 2 years ago and they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.
I was in a lot of these planning meetings and never said a thing about how it didn't need to be AI it just needed to be a set of rules to follow. They are still not running without human intervention.
Rules: Don't load too much, don't have two trucks crossing over eachother, go when the stores are open, don't work more than 12 hours, try to give the same amount of stops/workload to each driver.
AI doesn't know what these things mean unless we tell it how to interpret work into rules. There is nothing intelligent about a system that relies on humans having to constantly check its work and paying extra to call that AI.
they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.
Yeah, NP hard problems don't get easier just because the AI is doing the "thinking."
Pretty sure that's how the product will work but they'll just call it AI
Yeah that was why it was so dumb. There was nothing AI about it and before this AI bubble it would have just been called automated.
Breaking news, trash tech no one wanted or asked for being shoved down everyone's throats is trash.
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If AI is a bubble that pops, all the big talking heads that went on about how it's the future and we all need to embrace it won't lose credibility. They'll mostly just keep their jobs. Not fair. I can be pig headed and wrong and I'll do it for less than their seven figure compensation
Worse, those of us who have been sticking our neck out and saying "hey guys let's maybe slow down a minute on investing into things that have no foreseeable path to profitability" are getting passed over on career advancements while hype-chasers are getting rewarded.
Life ain't fair man, especially when you have a passing interest in understanding wtf is going on and a moral compass that tentatively points towards not actively and knowingly making the world worse.
Every try sprinkling in a little "my idea will allow the company to fire 90% of their workers" while being pig headed and wrong? Might bump you up a few levels - companies love that kind of shit.
No one ever knew how to use it, and they still don't. All we heard was "implement AI" but not any actual use cases.
That's because it is a speak and apell pretending to be a hammer.
The use case for AI is pumping up the stock market.
I was working in pure software engineering and we had to attend a meeting/presentation about some use cases for it.
It's one of things that any useful tech would never need. Do you think the airplane, the cell phone, the internet, any other useful tech you can think of needed brainstorming sessions for use cases? Hell no, they couldn't implement their ideas as fast as they wanted because the uses are so obvious
It works well to get a simple working example of a tech you haven't used before. Like a quicker alternative to searching Stack Overflow. "Vibe coding" a whole app seems like too much of a stretch for the current tech though. And whether or not it's worth the money invested in it or the energy used to run it is another area where it seems vastly oversold.
If I have to spend several days 'training' it, turn take time to fix it's mistakes, it's not saving any time
People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There's all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi's AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.
Just because you don't know how to use it doesn't mean "no one ever knew how to use it".
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time to move some of my 401k allocations, cuz a big slice of the sp500 pie is heavily invested on AI
You are not the first person I've heard share that sentiment!
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