Re:Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"
by sjajshha on Thursday January 22, 2026 @08:49AM
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> Customer service (chat, phone)
Only because companies have been cutting costs for decades here. This is not a good argument for AI.
> writing software
If you mean typing characters quickly, yes. Otherwise, there’s still a lot of employed devs, with many AI companies hiring.
> writing docs about software
The most useful docs are there because they contain info you cannot determine from the code. AI is not able to do this.
> computer graphics (animation, images)
If you are producing slop, yes.
> driving cars
True, but only because of its improved physical awareness. ie it’s a mechanical gain (better eyes, ears, etc) not an intellectual one (interpreting that information). Self driving cars aren’t LLMs and not really applicable here. Entirely different field.
> AI is only going to become more ubiquitous, there's 0% chance it 'fails' and we return to 2020
Absolutely true. But not for the reasons you think.
Only because companies have been cutting costs for decades here. This is not a good argument for AI.
> writing software
If you mean typing characters quickly, yes. Otherwise, there’s still a lot of employed devs, with many AI companies hiring.
> writing docs about software
The most useful docs are there because they contain info you cannot determine from the code. AI is not able to do this.
> computer graphics (animation, images)
If you are producing slop, yes.
> driving cars
True, but only because of its improved physical awareness. ie it’s a mechanical gain (better eyes, ears, etc) not an intellectual one (interpreting that information). Self driving cars aren’t LLMs and not really applicable here. Entirely different field.
> AI is only going to become more ubiquitous, there's 0% chance it 'fails' and we return to 2020
Absolutely true. But not for the reasons you think.