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Let’s all just pauze for a moment and try to take in the utter stupidity of Big Tech and US capitalism.
AI has been a thing for over ten years. Even before LLM’s we were doing great things with self-learning algorithms and there was a great deal of enthousiasm about where this technology would take us.
Fast forward to today and the blatant incompetence of AI agents, LLM’s or VLM’s to perform even the most simple tasks, stands in stark contrast to the billions being thrown at tech companies, to the hundreds of data centers popping up to fuel Big Tech’s hot air balloon, to greedy eagerness of corporate America to replace skilled workers with untested and unproven technology and to the devastating effects this AI bubble is having on the real economy.
Don’t get me wrong, AI is definitely the future (even id LLM’s are not). But this AI bubble is an utter waste of capital, resources and talent that could’ve been used to fuel actual AI development and innovation. What we’re seeing is not the birth of a bright new future, but the death throes of a dysfunctional political and economic system.
Even 4 years ago, I was super excited about AI. It was a neat little toy. It had promise. Then it became the fucking pumpkin spice of the tech world.
But like... if pumpkin spice also stole all the other recipes, replaced the baristas, destroyed the bean farms, flooded the menu with fake drinks, and then lectured you about innovation when you asked why everything suddenly tasted like sewage.
--“You’re right to call that out. Let me make you a fresh cup, but this time I won’t use water from the toilets.”
--Makes a new cup from the fucking urinal instead.