That's because it is a speak and apell pretending to be a hammer.

I was working in pure software engineering and we had to attend a meeting/presentation about some use cases for it.

It's one of things that any useful tech would never need. Do you think the airplane, the cell phone, the internet, any other useful tech you can think of needed brainstorming sessions for use cases? Hell no, they couldn't implement their ideas as fast as they wanted because the uses are so obvious

The use case for AI is pumping up the stock market.

If I have to spend several days 'training' it, turn take time to fix it's mistakes, it's not saving any time

idk I think my AI infised can opener is great!

People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There's all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi's AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.

Just because you don't know how to use it doesn't mean "no one ever knew how to use it".

You are not the first person I've heard share that sentiment!

It’s such a misery managing any account during a bubble. If you hold you lose when the knife falls, if you try to time it then everything stays irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

why though

Pretty sure that's how the product will work but they'll just call it AI

they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.

Yeah, NP hard problems don't get easier just because the AI is doing the "thinking."

Worse, those of us who have been sticking our neck out and saying "hey guys let's maybe slow down a minute on investing into things that have no foreseeable path to profitability" are getting passed over on career advancements while hype-chasers are getting rewarded.

Life ain't fair man, especially when you have a passing interest in understanding wtf is going on and a moral compass that tentatively points towards not actively and knowingly making the world worse.

Every try sprinkling in a little "my idea will allow the company to fire 90% of their workers" while being pig headed and wrong? Might bump you up a few levels - companies love that kind of shit.

It's not trash. It's just not the "replace every worker in every industry" hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.

I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.

The Gartner hype cycle doesn't crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it's difficult to reach any sort of "good enough" point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.

But, that's not how this works.

Predict

Can already confirm they are doing that.

The executives are building dog shit unrealizable tools right now that nobody uses. It's purely for the stock holders.

We marked ourselves as "AI powered" . Nobody is using our AI tools after they go live. We can see the logs.

We already never really gave a shit at the companies I worked at so far. Bosses love spewing shit about AI, telling us to use it and find out more about it, especially coding AIs, but we often try them out for a bit with serious tasks then revert back to only ever using them for formatting or research assistance. My colleagues tried and failed several times to use them for tasks involving non-trivial logic and it never worked, even with paid Cursor or Gemini.

My fear is that the US and Chinese governments will be propping up AI long after its shelf life because we're in a mini economic cold war with them and nobody wants to get "left behind" in this ridiculous AI race to the bottom.

Literal trillions of dollars are going into AI related initiatives. But the bubble can't burst unless the money dries up and I don't see that happening with the current regimes.

I just realized that the GenAI craze is like the modern version of Ronald Reagan's Star Wars project, but somehow both countries got fooled into pouring money into a colossal folly.

truly the industry is saved

Yeah I use it to bypass advertising when looking up obscure coding problems. But I think the point is I'd never pay a penny (see what I did there?) to use it. It's nice and helps some places but I think monetizing the billions spent is the challenge / impossible. Plus people at my work have copilot fatigue. It's been integrated in such a clumsy distracting way. Actually adding negative value now.

Yeah. And actual usage was the only thing inflating the bubble. Companies are not showing the productivity gains per worker that were promised. The bubble is being held up on a promise of those gains that have not actually materialized.

Not to mention the inevitable AI talking to AI creating content used by AI to train new AI. Creating a feedback loop that inevitably crashes the entire development of it. We are placing the hands of our data infrastructure into a technology that literally hallucinates.

The AI slop we are getting in art and video is just a visual example of what is happening to businesses, data, and financial infrastructure. Something that will be significantly worse than an AI video of a dog saving a kid from drowning.

Unfortunately, what will happen, is the crash will inevitably lead to even more infrastructure being consolidated into the hands of the rich idiots that caused it in the first place.

AI could be helpful. But Jesus Christ capitalism is so incredibly greedy it pushed it into everything with the promise that we could exploit more labor value with less workers. This system is so self destructive to the workers that live under it.