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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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He's sadly right.. My wife is Chinese, she watches AI Chinese dramas and she has told me that most of China watch AI dramas. And Gen Z watch AI, Everyone younger than 30 relies on AI.
Now before you downvote me, I'm 37 and I've worked in IT since I was 19.. AI gives me nothing I can't find for myself. The only time I've used AI was when chat GPT was fresh and new and I told it to be more sarcastic and snarky in it's answers and I argued with it for 2-3 mins before I got bored.
Humans are much better at arguing with me and being sarcastic to me.
I don't care for AI, Turn off all the air conditioners and AI burns out.
"AI gives me nothing I can't find for myself." True, but that's the point.
From a worker standpoint, while you're researching that thing you can find for yourself, someone of equal skill to you that is leveraging AI has solved 3 of those issues. And someone with more skill has solved 10. And someone with lesser has either crashed the network, or solved that same 1.
From a personal use standpoint: is the value of creation in the journey and the learning? For some it is. For others it being able to remove barriers and obstacles to create a new website you've been wanting to, or planning out a garden, or brainstorming an idea.
You've used it once 2+ years ago and wrote it off completely. Do you also still do your laundry with a wasboard and clothesline? Is the Internet just a fad also?
It's has value. It also has large risk. But pandoras box is open. Those that refuse to leverage and learn it will be at a disadvantage.
I just don't get why people like you exist. You guys have the stupidest fucking arguments for why not wanting to use the regurgitation machine that murders the environment and causes people to kill themselves is bad.
But, like, do you still use NFTs? That was the future. It was so the future. Same fucking arguments from the same fucking mouth-breathing dipshits.
And using AI does not even make you faster or better at what you do. It can increase output, and it can cause you to do a shit job, and it can falate your ego so you think you are soooo much better and bigger than everyone else, you big strong muscly man, you. You're basically just saying that workers can never and should never have any fucking downtime, ever. They cannot stop. They must always, always produce, more and more. And, like, fuck all the way off. You don't need to output more. You do not need to be faster. You don't need AI, even if it was as good as people pretend it is, which it is not!
Because AI sucks. It isn't good at anything other than replicating an amalgamation of the data that is fed into it. Anyone that says it is good at any other thing is just shit at that specific thing and doesn't know any better. LLMs are just huge giant matrices full of coefficients matching language segments. They don't know jackshit. They have relatively small context windows compared to even the dumbest motherfucker on this planet and people working on making LLMs better are running out of shortcuts to make them better. The money they have been lent needs to start making it back. And they can't make money because they are subsidizing everyone using AI with that venture capital because it still hasn't made a fucking dime yet.
Don't worry, guys. We just need to keep feeding more data into it! It's so much better, guys, I swear! This one won't hallucinate all the time, bro, I swear! Just one more model, it's so close!
I feel like your projecting. My comment didn't approach anything close to the unmedicated fantasy in which you seemed to have made up and responded to.
Nfts, no downtime, and anti-worker? Really? Not even gemini would hallucinate that out of my comment.
The world is accelerating faster than most of us are comfortable with. The future is bleak and we absorb utter chaos daily in the 24hr news cycle. It's exhausting
I'm sorry that pandoras box is open. But it's not going away.
I'm not naive enough to think we're going back to a world without a machine that statically produces regurgitated characters that happen to match an exceedingly large class of common problems that people are looking for help with, whether it's an over burdened worker at soulless corporation, an 18yo with an idea but not the background, a 21year assessing if the lease for their first apartment has red flags, or a mom making a video game based on her son's stuffed animal named slappy.
Unfortunately, even with their small context windows, useless matrices, and lowly statistical representions of language segments, they are better at debugging, brainstorming, "coding", and answering questions than a lot of people, let alone "the dumbest mother fucker on the planet".
That's why those people do not code or do those other things, and, surprisingly, most of those people don't suddenly think they are now better than a person who has done... Just... The smallest amount of actual training to become good at that thing.
You got that AI psychosis in you, buddy. Ask your AI friend for the nearest person to get you the hell away from it.
If only telling you how brainwashed you are would actually fox things. Let me know when you have enough tokens to reply to me.
There you go projecting again. Pushing a narrative about how I must feel about people that you push as being dumb.
It is hilarious how a comment where I say AI is pandoras box, aka the mechanism that spawned all of the world's evil, and conceeding it has risks and flaws, all of a sudden makes me the world's biggest AI sycophant because I say it has value.
As you grow older, or if you watch the movie Inside Out to completion, you will learn people can have multiple complex feelings about things. Only on reddit, and this place it seems, must someone have the most extreme all good or all bad else they're the worst thing that ever existed. I truely hope you find the help you most surely need.