Here’s the updated scoreboard of AI-pilled promises - and what became of them:
- AI is going to
makecost big money for AI-first companies. - AI is going to make employees
more productivewade through tons of generated slop instead of doing actual work. - AI is going to
solve all of humanity’s problems - cancer, global warming, all that jazz!exacerbate humanity’s problems by gobbling up resources on an unprecedented scale.
I’m a big AI hater and just can’t wait until this is all over. However, I’ve seen colleagues use the slop machine to just make shit they’d have skipped otherwise. Like using it to do TDD, provide the tests and then do the actual fun work - write proper good code.
But also if AI vanished tomorrow I’d be so happy and would not cry a single tear for it.
I’m not expecting AI to go away. I’m hoping the bubble pot will remove AI from a lot of markets that should t be using it because it was shoehorned in so they could figure out uses for it. The test bench use makes sense to me. I can see how that could be beneficial to generate. In this case the people using those AI generated tests are still coding and their skills will remain sharp.
But it just doesn’t work for a lot of stuff people are trying to use it for. Consumer tech is one of those things and I actively hate it.
Yeah for every 1 good use of ai that makes sense corpos are shoving it in 9 that don’t make sense.
Ai can be useful and fine. But not so long as the corpos are shoving it into everything everywhere all of the time.
Word! LLMs can be a useful tool, but every tool has its purpose. A hammer is great for - well, hammering stuff. What corporate “leadership” has done - drunk on the koolaid given to them by hammer salesmen - was to mandate that everyone must do their work with a hammer now. And now they’re bamboozled why so many people are getting hurt and inventory, somehow, always looks like it was smashed to bits. (Maybe we need to do just a smidge more hammering to get there?)
When you don’t understand the difference between a screw and a nail. A brick makes for a fantastic hammer.
- causing massive enviromental harm, and also mass surveillance.
- AI is going to
Good?
Actions, meet consequences.
Couldn’t have happened to a better company.
Google spent decades telling publishers to create quality content, then built a machine to read it aloud without sending anyone to the source. Now it’s shocked that the machine makes less money. Congratulations: they’ve invented a search engine that eats both its suppliers and its own business model.
Google is pivoting to telling publishers that its websites are not high quality enough, and that they need to subscribe to their AI services in order for generate user-tailored websites for customer retention.
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/
Lol AI eating and leaving no crumbs. Slurping on anything it can vaccuum in.
Oroboros
Tech orobroros
Until their AI thing returns sponsored answers
Doesn’t the regular answers do that already?
Isn’t this exactly the same pattern seen with voice assistants like echo? Cost loads to develop, people generally like using them but arent willing to pay for them or tolerate blatant advertising by them.
They got what they deserved. Taking into consideration that Chinese AI companies are loosing heavily in the stock market - I am certain that it is time for the US as well. I bet that within two weeks from US elections AI companies will be at least 20-30% lower than today.
You can make that bet with a short
You can lose everything amd then some before the inevitable, or even rational comes to pass.
There’s an old saying in economics. “The market can stay irrational for a lot longer than you can stay solvent.” It feels very applicable.
Don’t actually do this because you could end up owing a lot more than you can afford.
I hate that. Are you a normal person? Then have some middleman fees. And a bit more. And sprinkle a little on top.
Oh, you’re a hedgefund? Here you have it with minimal fees, because god forbid rich won’t grow richer asap.
Democratizing the casino, eh?
Pffft, as if I have money.
Short on money then
That was a hysterical comment my friend.
Good, because that damn thing is in the way. It’s just another block that is stacked on another block with another block. Just searching on Google is abysmally horrible in every way.
Shocked that they’re not already raking in the cash by having it’s built in LLM suggest sponsored products as the solution to whatever is typed in.
Hell, they could be doing it already and we’d never know. The only reason I don’t think it’s happening is cause they’re not making insane amounts of money doing it (and bragging about it)
What? If you want actual information you have to literally scold an agent “just give me the information I am seeking and stop recommending products”.
I’ve been trying out the google pro paid tier. It’s really shit. The only advantage over my local AI stack is that it’s way faster, and I can use it while my local stack is working, but I’m definitely cancelling.
How’re you solving the web page fetch blocking problem? Lots of pages return nothing to my Playwright instance. When the pages load, the result is fabulous.
I’ve got a local AI stack, it’s called a trans robotgirl friend and a fucking brain.
You know, for a moment I thought i was going to get sick of all the “AI blew up in this company’s face” headlines, but I dont think i will.
They’re like popcorn. Every kernel is buttery goodness.
There are two wolfs inside of me:
I want to use Google’s AI as much as absolutely possible - in order to cost them as much as possible.
I want to protect the enviroment as much as possible - and using AI (especially when you don’t want to) still costs the enviroment.
So . . . I’ll give into . . . Wile E. Coyote and just do something stupid.
The environment is fucked either way. Might as well spend the idiots money doing it regardless in a futile effort to make them waste enough money to be unable to fuck the environment?
I mean sure. It’s still early days for AI models. They spent years boiling the frog that is the search user. They can take a hit for a while before Gemini starts taking money to talk or more importantly not talk about something.
Its not “early days”.
Early days for AI models was a decade ago.
LLMs that are wide spread and accessable to the general public is basically 3 years.
No one in the general public who uses chatgpt or googles AI overview gives a shit when Google published attention is all you need.
And it’s gonna be less than 3 years before the big crash. We are in the late afternoon of the LLM age. The guests are patting their pockets and saying “well, it’s getting rather late…”
I use mostly AI to find stuff on the internet now. I just don’t use Google’s AI because it’s even worse than ChatGPT.
