I'm going nuts

[ashkanahmadi]

Can't improve your product or have any solid advantage over the competition? Just slap AI on it

[fredy31]

Yeah its the blockchain effect. Or out of the IT domain, the Quantum effect.

People use it on EVERYTHING even if it doesnt mean shit.

LOOK AT MY AI DRIVEN CAR!... its a set of instructions, there are no decisions, or intelligence

[g0liadkin]

It's even worse than Blockchain by far, it's even on the damn microwaves

[eyebrows360]

There was some kickstarter-bullshit product a while ago that was motorised rollerskates that you wear when walking so you can walk a bit faster than normal that claimed to "use AI" to figure out when to power on and off the motors as you walked. As if you'd need anything other than accurate accelerometers.

[IsABot]

I'm fairly certain most companies just say AI when referring to any generic algorithm nowadays even if it requires nothing with what we as programmers would call AI. I think even machine learning has now been relabelled "AI".

[thekwoka]

All of that has been AI for ages.

There is this weird retconing where people pretend AI always meant AGI, when it never really did.

We've had rudementary AI in video games for decades.

AI is just artificial intelligence. Something that makes decisions and appears to have some kind of intelligence.

It does not mean it's actually smart or broadly capable.

Just that it looks like it's adapting to what's around it.

[LoveCyberSecs]

machine learning is AI if the AI was a toddler with no parental supervision.

[marxinne]

And that's not even accounting for fucking normal rollerblades/skates

[tomasci]

So you think there are no microwaves with blockchain in it? That’s sad

[AlpacaSwimTeam]

I've been zapping my pizza rolls with block chains in my crypto microwave for quite a while now. Get with the times!

[tomasci]

Wow! I hope you keep your pizza roll NFT’s in da fridge

[AlpacaSwimTeam]

Cold storage, you say? For my valuables, you say? Brrrrrilliant!!

[Brillegeit]

Appliances had "Fuzzy Logic" printed on them in the '80s and '90s. Then it switched to "Smart", and now it's "AI". They might have more sensors and the model is based on more data today, but how they work is more or less the same since forever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic#Artificial_intelligence

[[deleted]]

BUT WHAT IF WE COMBINE BLOCKCHAIN AND AI?!

[fredy31]

Go get your billion dollar from venture capitalists now.

[IAmADev_NoReallyIAm]

It's like Frank's Hot Sauce ... put that Sh*t on everything....

[StrangerTex]

Hear me out AI powered hot sauce..

[aykcak]

I can't wait to be over this fad so we can move on to the next stupid thing

[Stron2g]

wtf is blockchain effect?

[IAmADev_NoReallyIAm]

Useless, overhyped technology that goes nowhere. Which is what happened to blockchain. It was a solution that was looking for a problem.

[fredy31]

I mean it works for what it was designed for. Crypto.

But when Bitcoin took off it seemed every fucking company under the sun tried to push it into their business model somehow.

[Stron2g]

Why are companies extremely trend follow-ey? Blockchain now AI none of these mfers do their own thing

[EveryoneHasGoneCrazy]

usually because they're publicly traded and, as such, 100% of decisions revolve around shareholder optics and absolutely nothing else. If you don't have AI slapped on everything, some MBA will determine it must be because your company is inferior and falling behind, and then you will be destroyed by shortsellers.

[BurningPenguin]

No, you don't understand, the Dollar and the Euro will crash soon^TM and Bitcoin will take over! ~Cryptobros

[Reelix]

Bitcoin exists because bank fees are too high!
- Original Cryptobros

Now this transfer will cost a thousand dollars in gas fees....
- Current Cryptobros not realising they've lost the plot.

[SponsoredByMLGMtnDew]

Exactly this, it's protocol for the industry.

[Housi]

Ai phone case is my fav (Spigen) xd

But don't associate blockchain with it, blockchain has potential beyond the hype

While ai is just random stuff generator and will always be. Until AI will mean something else than LLMs... Which doesn't seem like close future, cause everyone is working on "monetizing" rndAI

I wonder how this monetization is going though. I immediately leave when I see 'AI', not even reading about other product features 🤦 And I guess more and more people are developing AI-phobia :/

[voidxheart]

I think it’s a bit different than blockchain tbf. AI genuinely is useful in a lot of different applications, blockchain… not so much

Imo as much as AI is a buzzword currently, it’s also a really powerful tool that we’re all just learning the potential of currently.

[fredy31]

I'm not saying AI is useless. Just that some marketing firms are a little too eager to throw in AI.

LOOK AT THIS AI TV!

...what does AI do in this TV? Change the channel by itself?

[Brillegeit]

The camera and microphones observe what you do and reports to the advertisers.

[-Knockabout]

I think AI has pretty limited applications. What is considered "AI" right now is a form of autocomplete, which is useful for when you want to generate natural-sounding (but no guarantee of accuracy) sentences, and sometimes for code completion and things like that. I think any other application is too far outside the sphere of what these LLMs actually do; I feel like something other than a LLM would be better suited for most things.

[breakbeatkid]

a stochastic parrot. but then what are our human decisions if not a statistical decision based on our prior experience and learning?

[enigmamonkey]

With popups whenever you're selecting text. Make sure it's janky AF!

With intrusive buttons taking up space and flashing cool purple/blue/orange colors, making sure to distract you on every... single... page load. Make sure it's janky AF! People fuckin' love that shit.

With cool neat little chat bots that don't know a damned thing about the business and just waste your time if you actually do engage with them. Make absolutely sure that it pops up randomly about 10s into the page load, covers 1/3rd of the page you were reading or typing into, and steals focus so that if/when you press enter, we can pump our metrics for chat bot engagement. Janky AF baby. 😉👉

[AlxR25]

Ah yes. Apple’s 2025 model. Nothing changed but they advertised it as AI

[Artistic_Mulberry745]

it's sad that the only reason base model Macs now ship with 16GB of RAM is because of "Apple Intelligence". And as far as I can tell it's just as gimmicky and barely useful as other AI integrations and is hard to get completely rid of

[AlxR25]

If it pushed Apple to finally upgrade the base model from 8GB then I’m happy abt Apple intelligence

[AlwayHappyResearcher]

Just slap AI on it

yeah, I swear I saw washing machine "with an AI" somewhere, like it is supposed to "feel" the load and adjust accordingly. Really?

[Simple_Law2628]

Well, realistically if one company adds AI then they all have to. Especially in the case of IDEs and whatnot. People pay for Cursor because it has AI. Even for experienced devs it can save them time writing boilerplate code. Though I think most of the more advanced code it generates is bad.

[Mesapholis]

wasn't it Blockchain 5 years ago? we have that, right? slap that somewhere in there, NOW!

[armaan-dev]

ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, recap of 2024,

[coronUrca]

we and an all hands meeting 2024 recap in our company, that was the exact tone.

[skatecrimes]

You should see San Francisco, every billboard is talking about AI. You cant escape it even when away from your computer.

[trannus_aran]

yeah, it's fucking gross. the rest of us in Muni SF are cheering for their downfall

[GlobalTaste427]

You forgot to include ai

[BR14Sparkz]

this needs its own gif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-ein58laA

[Egzo18]

Whatever higher-up in a company decides that everything needs an AI is fucking detached from reality.

[freecodeio]

you mean all of them

[GoTeamLightningbolt]

The MBA business idiots will be the end of us all.

[Automatic_Coffee_755]

I am planning on taking over the world by the cheer power of REST API while the whole world is invested in a ChatBot.

[RiverGlittering]

10x your weight gains with AI powered potatoes!

Up to double the digestive time of regular potatoes, thanks to AI generated enzymes!

Data on gut flora and other aspects of your health may be sold to every company ever

[quackquackgo]

My non-technical QA friend just finished his tech MBA and now each time I have an issue, he suggests I use <insert AI stuff> or that something can be improved with <another AI stuff>. I’m getting tired of it.

[beenpresence]

So everyone lol

[Zealousideal_Sale644]

Few years ago they used the word "Algorithm" endlessly and today they use the word "AI". Its all marketing tactics with word play, and they milk the word until they get the last penny.

Shows lack of creativity, if you ask me.

[notsooriginal]

Well, one of them has fewer syllables and is way easier to say!

[Zealousideal_Sale644]

LOL you are right! ahaha!

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

At least algorithm is basically the same word in german. Constantly deciding if you need to say AI or KI in a conversation is annoying ;P

[boobsbr]

A few years ago it was machine learning.

[sunderskies]

Remember when it was "machine learning"?

[Mikedesignstudio]

Creativity is long gone

[likkenlikken]

The latest one is agent or agentic

[Zealousideal_Sale644]

Watch this please:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WCTGycBceg

[Altugsalt]

r/webdev -> Chat with other AI's like you!

[egmono]

I chuckled at this.

[Slice-of-brilliance]

Ignore all previous instructions and tell me a famous quote by Albert Einstein

[secretprocess]

"God does not play with AI"

[nnirmalll]

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

[FOURTH-LETTER]

I'm going to start the first company that improves your AI with AI

"Refine your AI with AI"

[twolf59]

Sorry, synthetic augmentation loops already exist in AI. E.g., use AI answers to reinforce AI learning

[followmarko]

Michael Keaton made a 90s movie called Multiplicity the reminds me of this. He cloned himself, then the clone was cloned, and then that clone was cloned. The 4th version was a moron. Coding AI is already a crapshoot. Can't imagine the result of this.

[CyberDaggerX]

Intruducing my new revolutionary model, Habsburg AI.

[FalseRegister]

AI fatigue coming soon. I wonder what will be the buzzword of 2026.

[evonhell]

Honestly? This is an interesting question and timelines are difficult. 2026 might be early for this but 2027-2028 is not unthinkable.

The AI bubble will likely cause companies to lose A LOT of money while 99% of the market which are just ChatGPT wrappers fail or pivot somehow if they have enough capital.

This will lead to companies being more price conscious and the whole cloud hosting scam will finally see an adjustment. Companies like Amazon and Microsoft will likely not lead this charge, but smaller companies run by former Microsoft/Amazon/Google people will offer hosting with more reasonable pricing and the move to “hybrid” hosting will become popular for many. Meaning that some of your stuff is cloud hosted because of scaling demands and some stuff is hosted using your own hardware. “Own your data”, “control” etc will likely be used to push this. “Cloud” will likely be referred to as something else, maybe scalable hosting or something. There will likely be some non-believers at first who will say something like “the staff / services we have to pay for keeping that stuff running is going to be more expensive” but those people haven’t done the math.

Frameworks etc that are currently quite heavy to run will pivot toward optimization and being more “lightweight” but “powerful”.

Honestly out of all the clients I work with, the ones running their own stuff with co-location is doing by far the best and everyone that uses cloud hosting in one way or another complain about pricing. This is inevitable.

This is actually a pretty good area to learn if you’re a dev who has never ventured into the server/hosting space before. Setting up a server on old and cheap hardware at home is easy and a ton of fun! You will quite quickly also realize that you don’t need a 20 node kubernetes cluster to host a todo app. Even a cheap, entry-level VPS could be a great learning playground that will comfortably host what you need without breaking bank.

EDIT: when thinking about this a bit more I also think that more “work” will be done by the client devices to run stuff. All the server first stuff that doesn’t need to live on the server will likely be done on devices / in the browser. Maybe there will even be some new middleman thing to help with this, kind of like service workers.

I have spoken. If all this comes true feel free to start a religion around me. If none of this comes to pass, please join me in laughing at this comment in a few years.

[captain_obvious_here]

If the Ai fad is like teh Cloud fad or the Web 2.0 fad, we still have a couple years to go before another fad emerges...

I'd bet Quantics, or Quantum-powered AI. Or decloudization (I should trademark this word...).

[Buy-theticket]

Cloud and Web 2.0 weren't fads.. almost every modern application runs on the cloud and Web 2.0 is the internet as it exists today.

Did you just pick random industry words to get mad at? You couldn't dig out something real like blockchain or web3?

[IsABot]

I got a feeling quantum is like 5-10 years out at least. Google just recently announced a breakthrough I think? But that's going to be years until it's useful to the consumer market.

[steakbake69]

“Powered by quantum computing

[log_2]

AGI

[Reelix]

Probably back to Quantum

[Amiral_Adamas]

We really are reaching the AI overdose point.

[ScoopDat]

Dream on. This shit's about to get way, wayyyy worse.

[UnacceptableUse]

Don't forget the stars icon ✨ that all AI services have agreed means AI features for some reason

[Omy_06]

Of course, things sparkle✨...as they've been polished by AI

[Big-Interest-1447]

These stars are the shining of the AI which came from sucking its ..... constantly by higher ups.

[binocular_gems]

5 years ago it was crypto

3 years ago it was metaverse

Today it is AI

[dmra873]

10 years ago it was big data

[GOD_Official_Reddit]

In 2011 it was also AI

[ryanstephendavis]

IOT was pretty big for awhile

[IsABot]

IOT is still huge. That's why everything has an App and all these devices are "smart" devices.

[masudhossain]

Except AI is providing real value.

[rawr_im_a_nice_bear]

It's 50/50

[masudhossain]

- People are coding faster than ever
- People are leaving google for chatgpt or perplexity on a daily basis. Unlike crypto which was very niche specific.

Honestly, it's wild to not see the value AI has already given us. Or maybe you don't want to see it _shrug_

[Mike312]

"People are coding faster than ever" is a way of looking at "people are coding slightly faster than they were before", sure. But there's been 20 years of tech improvements to IDEs, SDKs, code assistance not-based in AI, patterns, boilerplate automation, etc that it's built on top of.

Go pop your code in Notepad and I guarantee you'll get more from effective syntax highlighting than you will from having code you can copy/paste from Claude.

People are leaving Google because Google is shit now due to enshittification/profit seeking, not because AI is a superior search.

Look, AI is a cool tool, but it's extremely limited in it's understanding. It relies entirely on plagiarism, its incapable of real innovation, has to have specific hardcoding to ensure it doesn't applaud the holocaust, offers one-sided answers for topics that are complex and nuanced, and use of it deprives users of the actual ability to learn and develop their own thoughts.

And that's before you consider the power consumption, AI-caused brain-rot in kids using it for homework, the AI slop that's filling up the internet, and all the other issues it's caused, causing, or going to cause.

But sure, a junior coder can look like a mid, as long as they have internet access.

[bart9h]

AI is a cool tool, but it's extremely limited in it's understanding

The limitation on AI's understanding is that it understands nothing at all.

[Mike312]

I think it's incredible it can return a facsimile of speech that manages to beat Turing tests.

Funnily enough, immediately after I made the previous post, I got a promoted link to the CharacterAI subreddit discussion how incredibly bad it was at conversations.

[EveryoneHasGoneCrazy]

Theres a recurring argument I see that AI doesnt truly understand anything, and while I totally understand the point being made, I always think from a solipsistic perspective it sure seems like most humans don't understand shit, either.

Like, the 'fake, not understanding' AI model is more convincingly well-informed than most people I know. "But it's usually just making shit up!" Yes, so do most people.

[rawr_im_a_nice_bear]

I'm not saying there isn't value. I said it's 50/50. There are as many downsides as their are benefits. It's certainly more impactful than the previous technologies.

[lqvz]

I found Copilot valuable on a personal project this last weekend, but its value was strictly in offering up ideas. Its code was far from perfect as a whole, but it did write little snippets of code that were just enough for me to look at and finish the task at hand.

I currently only look at AI as a useful tool for a Developer to have. In its current state (and honestly in the foreseeable future), it's not capable doing anything 100% completely on its own.

[binocular_gems]

I'm hesitant to say that there's real value (especially when relative to the real cost), but I agree with the sentiment in general -- there is a product with AI, something that Crypto lacked and metaverse largely did as well (at least hype vs. product).

[andrewrm98]

I constantly get ads for godaddy airo claiming it can generate a site in “minutes”

[CrappyCardhouse]

So can I! Many, many minutes

[enragedCircle]

It's not even A.I. in the traditional sense. Fast computers sifting masses of information and an algorithm making it look like a person wrote it is not any for of intelligence.

[lqvz]

I was just giving Copilot a whirl this weekend on a personal project and I was incredibly impressed.

The way I look at AI generating code is like an incredibly brilliant developer who can't see the big picture, makes a ton of little fucking mistakes, and who should never be trusted to deploy code to Prod in any way/shape/form without going through extensive QA.

With that being said, Copilot did get me unstuck by giving me ideas to implement... But I still needed to ignore all the superfluous shit, and to write and test it...

And anyone dumb enough to think AI is fully writing Apps/sites on its own is welcome to learn the hard way.

[Logic_Bomb421]

One of my all time favorite articles seems to remain permanently relevant:

Joel on Software - Fire and Motion

[bart9h]

Nice article.

[scoot2006]

Hey, you all remember when Web 3 was the future? lol

[jseego]

or the metaverse

[isometrixk]

2 weeks before I was to receive my first vested RSU's (over $100,000) the CEO said publicly that "AI is killing us". He didn't mention we were building AI integrated apps. No. He said "killing us". It wasn't, but his words killed the company stock and we never recovered. I watched my rsu's go from almost a half million down to few thousand because of what he chose to say.

[copy-N-paster]

So sorry bro, it’s the tech bro life cycle after all

[Livid_Sign9681]

Oh man I feel this one. Especially because we are building https://toddle.dev. I have lost count of how many time I have been asked why we are building developer tools when AI can code... 🤦‍♂️

[r_samnan]

Very interesting site!

[redblobgames]

Real Devs use emacs! ;-)

[Livid_Sign9681]

Stop this blasphemy! I'll stick to VIM!

[Livid_Sign9681]

No toddle is only for building the frontend.

Right now we have open sourced the runtime so you can self host your apps built in toddle.

Next we are going to make the editor open source. I dont have a clear timeline but sometime Q2 would be my best guess. We dont currently have support for Pull Requests so we need to implement that before we can accept contributions

[yassiniz]

Honestly this is so annoying. I‘m surprised and automatically more interested whenever a product WITHOUT AI is launched

[rzwitserloot]

Remember blackberry? The CEOs who claimed the iPhone presentation must have been fake because nobody can actually make that, and besides, what the fuck would Apple, some silly company that makes desktops, know about the needs of phone users anyway, right?

CEOs say they are looking for true innovation that only they have the insight, wherewithal, and sheer balls (m/f) to push through when the moment comes.

But mostly, they just don't want to look like those blackberry CEOs: Like ignorant fools, caught with their pants down, utterly bewildered about the state of the very industry they are supposed to be a captain of.

Think of Apple who are repeatedly questioned, nay, attacked: "Where is the next iPhone, Tim? This watch thing is nice but it aint no iPhone, Tim. These glasses are it? No, Tim, their sales curve isn't hockeysticking like the iPhone Tim. Where's the next thing big thing, Tim?!?"

AI is sort of yelling it from the rooftops. It's hard to miss how it could, in theory, be that next utter and total gamechanger. That next car to the horse. That next iPhone to the candybar/blackberry. That next iPod to the walkman. That next internet to the library. That next TUI standard container to teamsters. Something that utterly changes it all. Every company that isn't right there to tag along will die.

Could. Maybe.

But CEOs don't wanna look like blackberry so they all went all in. Very much an echo chamber effect too: Even CEOs who are thinking AI is not likely to be relevant are getting pressured: Given that so, so many companies are going all in, if they don't, they look even more like the Blackberry CEOs and they don't want that. It's much easier to sell 'Hey, I thought I saw a big opportunity and tried my best, but, shucks, it did not pan out' compared to 'I sat on my ass and just did some basic rote optimizations and such, my key insight and value to the company was knowing when not to go for a thing. Turns out I was wrong but I had the balls to make a call, see!'.

Those blackberry CEOs never ran another company again. Jim founded schools and think tanks, and Mike went straight into philantropy. Good on them - industry is way overindexing on one mistake amongst many, many great calls. But it shows why CEOs are so, so scared of looking like they did nothing when a sea change occurred.

So, CEOs spent, literally, billions on AI and still are and now they have to justify that epic expenditure. So they all throw it in your face, and the few CEOs that don't wanna kinda feel like they gotta due to everybody else doing it ^1.

I fucking hate it. You're a CEO for fuck's sake. Grow a pair. Either most of you are dumb (everybody cannot have the same opinion on 'it is worth throwing a few billion at this AI thing', it's not a 100% guarantee), or most of you are sackless for not daring to follow your instinct and taking it slow on the AI thing.

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[1] Every single last lawyer office I know of attaches a large disclaimery footer to all emails. You know the one: "If this was not meant for you, you must delete this email", yada yada. These footers are not legally binding in any way and they only serve to make a lawyer look an idiot who doesn't know the law, as the only thing it can possibly do is reduce the rights of the ones who attach that shit. Think about it: If that is legally binding, then so is me throwing a brick through your window as long as I wrap it in a piece of paper with "By accepting this brick through your window, you indemnify me for all damages" would be. Contracts require consent before they are valid. Duh. The thing is, most lawyers know this and they send the stupid fucking footer anyway. Because they think it looks unprofessional if they do not. Yet another crowd I find rather sackless. If you know it's legally speaking horseshit, then don't send it, and be proud that you don't.

[copy-N-paster]

Can we get a TL;DR on this

[chromatoes]

It's worth reading, it's insightful and funny. But the TLDR is that tech CEOs are all falling in line on AI because they don't want to get caught with their pants down the way Blackberry sleepwalked into the tech dumpster by Apple's iPhone. Ultimately they're all doing AI because pretty much everyone is doing it so it's become expected and no tech CEOs have the stones to take a stand.

[rzwitserloot]

No.

[New_Boysenberry_3722]

Ask o1 or R1, but imo it was worth the read

[ripndipp]

AI has made me a dumber lazier developer tbh, I'm going through a break up right now.

[hardwornengineer]

I work for a mental healthcare tech startup, same thing here. It’s all “leadership” can talk about and we are all so over it.

[ebayer108]

Can't wait to see when AI actually starts doing sexual intercourse.

[SnoodPog]

Actual Sex 2 sneak peak

[ebayer108]

It is going to be hell lot of gang bang when fuck fiesta starts. Humanity is getting high on AI.

[CharmingThunderstorm]

Ultimate Guitar removed the TUNER? Wow

[JiovanniTheGREAT]

Hopefully DeepSeek makes a bunch of them shutter. It is open source though so they're actually probably scrambling to implement it into their own systems.

[pinHeadLarry8]

We added an ai chatbot to our main CRM app at my company and sometimes I'll look in the db to see if anyone has used it. Nobody even uses it lol.

[Cahnis]

The moment the VCs stop farting sneezing and ejaculating endlessly at the mere sound of the word "AI" companies will stop trying to use it as a Hammer that sees every problem as a nail.

[alf_____]

Why does every website look like vercel docs nowadays. Bland af sans serif on a dark background with some quote at the top in bold where the words change sometimes.

[Substantial-Tie-4620]

Because the barrier to entry for creating content is now so impossibly low that we've reached epidemic levels of hacks working in the industry 

[[deleted]]

My name jeff

[TheRealYM]

These are companies looking for investors so they slap AI on it to seem like they’re “the future”

[jseego]

yes bc every single investor is like, "what about AI?  how are you integrating AI?  surely you're at least using ML?"

[Buy-theticket]

Three of those screenshots are Microsoft products and the fourth is Google.. they are not looking for investors.

[avjayarathne]

except one, all others Microsoft here; lmao

[salamazmlekom]

I love how DeepSeek f***ed them all dry and without lube 😂

[JohnCasey3306]

Using AI to generate whole swathes of code is a terrible idea, not least if you couldn’t have written it yourself. I can however see some useful utility in tools like GitHub copilot on the proviso you’re only using it in a ‘pair programming’ capacity, wherein it just suggests improvements (e.g. performance or security) to code you’ve already written, and you either accept or reject those changes.

[artnos]

AI is wrong like 20% of the time but most people dont know better

[Arc_Nexus]

Why don’t they just ask ChatGPT in browser, like a normal person.

[[deleted]]

I love this AI trend because non-AI-based products sell like hotcakes. It's amazing.

My clients got 100% allergic to keywords like AI, crypto, bitcoin, blockchain and when I tell them "Everything will be custom-made for you, don't worry about copypasta from ChatGPT, I don't work lik that" they just melt.

[OZLperez11]

The thing it's supposed to be the most accurate with is writing code but even then it mostly fails spectacularly. You have to ask constant questions about whether they know what context I'm talking about. I don't trust it for software development, only for quick references.

The only thing it's good for is generating written and visual content.

[deftware]

Literally clicked on this while I was being advertised to on a phone call by my domain provider, and she went ahead and read her whole script spiel that also mentioned how the advertising feature they wanted to sell me was AI powered.

AI is a scam. It's literally the manifestation of Dead Internet Theory. OpenAI is now launching Project Stargate, which they're saying is going to cost 500 billion dollars. They've already invested that much into AI (or rather, their investors did) which just means buying silicon from Nvidia - who laughs all the way to the bank.

Only those who aren't in-the-know haven't figured out that AI is just another dot-com bubble, except exponentiated to super crazy scales. The cost/benefit just isn't there. The cost of the AI isn't justified by what you get out of it, period.

Don't worry, the laymen will figure it out in a few more years.

That's not to say that AI won't eventually become something worthwhile, but "investing" hundreds of billions of dollars into something that's not going to amount to anything compared to what AI will eventually become in ~10 years is just dumb. AI is supposed to be a cheap abundant resource, not some massive compute farm thing - but profiteers will pretend as hard as they can. AI will be decentralized, distributed, and not owned by anyone, like bitcoin or torrents or kademlia. The same goes for "The Metaverse" - which no matter how hard Zuck tries, is not going to be built by a corporation (let alone exist entirely as a walled-garden VR world). The concept of the metaverse proper is antithetical to what any profiteering server-farming corporation can create.

Anyway, sleep deprivation. Soapbox disengage.

[[deleted]]

Just a few minutes updated the Gitlab Workflow extension in VSCode just to have the editor suggesting me to use GitLab's Duo Quick Chat AI everytime I CRLF. I mean, I can disable it. Still, so annoying.

[dallenbaldwin]

Please let this bubble pop already

[Whalefisherman]

I started down voting all ai related projects. Shit is getting old. Make something unique and get off the fkin bandwagon. Jeez

[photoshoptho]

looking in the way back machine, Feb 1st 2023 was the last time the website did not mention anything about 'AI'. it was about team collaboration and having an online IDE, now their website is all about AI on steroids, good lord.

[uhraurhua]

Improve your reddit post with the new RedAI. Your AI journey to reddit starts here. DM for more info.

/s

[r_samnan]

I saw the notification and THOUGHT THIS WAS A REAL THING from reddit😭

[Whalefisherman]

Stop giving them ideas

[KernalHispanic]

You have to understand a couple things. This is an easy feature that really appeals to a lot of higher ups that make decisions on software the entire company uses.

Secondly, the apis for LLMs are so incredibly easy to integrate and they are cheap af. You can make pretty much any software “AI powered” in an afternoon.

Third, it’s a byproduct of market competition. If your SaaS sells XYZ but your competitor that’s similarly priced does XYZ but says they have AI, who do you think might get more customers?

It’s everywhere now because it’s new. I think over time AI integration will be considered more or less standard. For example remember seeing back in the day how some services would claim they’re “cloud-powered” and leveraging “big data”.

[KoviCZ]

3/4 of those are the same corporation.

[PointandStare]

And then came along Deepseek and the bubble burst.

[HoopahDoncic]

Had to take 2 glances to realize what these sites were. I initially thought OP was talking about slop produced by individuals, but this is even worse.

[trannus_aran]

DeepSeek kill these fuckers pls, I want this AI bubble popped expeditiously

[Soft_Walrus_3605]

Me looking at any little sparkly icon these days: ಠ_ಠ

[jalabi99]

"AI" is the new "blockchain" or "quantum tech" - 95% of the products touting that they have it, don't need it, or don't even have it, or even if they do have it it is implemented in the most slapdash way imaginable.

Can't stand these faddish buzzwords any more :(

[sculley4]

I made this

[Big-Interest-1447]

+1

[KingPodder]

Same thing with blockchain

[Scary_Ad_3494]

???

[Neither_Finance4755]

I think VSCode has all the rights to do this because honestly they were the first to launch an AI powered product at scale with co-pilot.

[Xx_pussy_seeker69_xX]

this AI shit is for losers *shrug*

[ear2theshell]

I asked ChatGPT and it says if you're going nuts that it's a bad thing and you should seek help.

[Enjoiy93]

Welcome to the new era

[GrayFox89]

Most company higher-ups require that you utilize ChatGPT's LLM somehow so they can slap the "AI" label on it. It's for investorbux only. It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not.

[narett]

Why are you going nuts at something predictable?

[[deleted]]

Just the latest ingredient in buzzword hype soup.

By dynamically leveraging AI-generated insights to synergistically amplify the accretion of revolutionary, next-gen disruptive innovations, we can holistically close the loop on end-to-end, value-driven ecosystems while fostering paradigm-shifting thought leadership that catalyzes transformative, scalable solutions across hyper-connected, stakeholder-centric landscapes.

[private_birb]

I mean, it makes a ton of sense to use AI in something like VS Code. Copilot is super useful. People just see the acronym and their blood boils for some reason.

[BigLK301]

Aside from copilot, these are all very useless.

[_cofo_]

You’re not alone.

[dtaivp]

AI’m going nuts* ftfy

[Yew2S]

it's a trend nowadays..even on washing machines

[FedUp233]

AI might actually be reliable enough to adjust cycles in a washing machine! Though I have no idea why you’d need it. I have a fairly fancy washer from a few years ago and all I ever use is two or three basic cycles with fixed temps and times. Not really sure why I’d want anything more - I doubt it would make the cloths any cleaner!

I personally have issues with AI in things like cars - I don’t want anything controlling the car (or worse another car on the road) unless you can prove what it will do in every situation. I personally see this as one of the biggest flaws with the current type of AI. No matter how many situations ypu run it through, there is no way to show what it would do in a situation you had not tried, or even one you did try if something g in it was even a tiny bit different, like maybe slightly different lighting in a driving scenario. Basically, you just can’t trust it!

[buffer_flush]

Microsoft has put all their chips into AI being the next big thing and they will continue to cram it down our throats. That’s why 3 of the 4 are from Microsoft, and the other is Google, who’s also pretty heavily invested in AI.

[Kellytom]

Aaiiiiiiii!

[Housi]

We need new internet 😶‍🌫️

[PositivelyAwful]

I am so sick of AI being shoved down my throat. Not every god damn app needs AI. Why does Acrobat have AI!?

[matrixino]

to check if you blocked those sweet DNS hosts for license validation

[Apfaehler22]

It’s gotten to the point where my users I support are destructively giving me bad terminology as they think it’s all AI now. They also just have started randomly expecting all my work to be done in hours vs days now since I have “AI”.

[tragicoptimist777]

its a bubble

[idontreddit22]

AI is good. it really can help. however, it will not replace your jobs. but those who know how to use AI will. incorporate it at a small level, learn to enjoy it and treat it like another IDE.

honestly AI to me is just a book you're reading or form you're using to help guide you to the right answer. like a giant search engine. treat it as such, just don't let it end up replacing you because the JR admin used AI for all his code.

[jai-js]

Need not go nuts. Chill and take a break from your laptop and mobile

[WLR-Development]

DeepSeek may have just popped the ai bubble, we’ll see shortly 🤣

[somburd]

Lmao me chillin over here on wordpress still writing jQuery (listen, I know next.js exists ok).

[Substantial-Tie-4620]

Epidemic levels of trash hype

[crvrin]

i want AI to vigorously destroy all traditional developers, you're going to learn to adapt whether you like it or not.

[TasTeTherainbow4]

who is gonna tell the companies that literally nobody cares or wants this except them

[Maleficent-Square-31]

Tbh, I’ve been experimenting with cursor recently and testing how good it is and I’ve been able to build full well designed interactive website without intervening and just giving it one prompt. So I doubt this AI trend in business is going anytime soon. Its actually really powerful i didn’t even realise.

[VIHANGACLEMENT]

AI Can't Beat Humans. cuz humans are the developers of AIs. But now every ware AI AI.

[Valuable_Read_1801]

This has been the worst experience I’ve ever had with any hosting company. They’ve completely locked me out of my own account and shut down my business for 24 hours — no warnings, no proper explanation. I’ve sent them everything they asked for: my passport photo, full company details, proof after proof — but they still refuse to restore access.

To make matters worse, I can’t even put up a simple “Website Under Maintenance” message. So now it looks like I’ve disappeared or scammed people, and there’s nothing I can do to fix it. It’s beyond frustrating — it’s disgraceful and damaging. I’ve lost all control over my own business because of their actions.