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Re:AI Pullback Has Officially Started by itsafarqueue on Sunday October 26, 2025 @03:26AM (#45709786)
AI creates the most spectacular happy path demos. It’s hard not to extrapolate to infinity when you see it.
Re:AI Pullback Has Officially Started by rhetocj23 on Sunday October 26, 2025 @06:13AM (#45710548)
People have a bias to want to believe something works in all cases, when it seemingly offers benefits to them. Especially when there’s a sunk investment involved.
Re:AI Pullback Has Officially Started by rsynnott on Sunday October 26, 2025 @05:18PM (#45715298)
This was always kind of a problem with the “this will make icky programmers obsolete” techs. Like, so did MS Access and a couple generations of click-and-drag ‘no-code’ stuff. Not to mention Rails; remember when everyone thought that would radically increase productivity? I’m pretty sure that was entirely because it was well-suited to “make a todo list/fake twitter/whatever in half an hour” demos.