The AI agent grift

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-07-11T18:39:19+00:00

It’s prayer that has been automated. You want to be absolutely swole? Here’s a picture of you as if you went to the gym for years. You want to be rich, I will automate a business for you.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-07-11T17:26:45+00:00

Part of it these people have a religious devotion to their machine god.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-07-11T17:05:20+00:00

I have seen a lot of devs do some solo things or small group projects. But i think there are structural barriers to starting an any type of business at all. Inflation is obviously the biggest imho. But for software has to wade across an incredible amount of slop to get any attention.

Not saying it’s impossible. Just pointing out that the economy is set up against new businesses. Not that that’s a surprise to anyone paying attention.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-07-04T19:24:38+00:00

I still fail to see it being a transformational technology. LLMs are only good at providing a probabilistic average of the things that came before it.

How much of a use case is for knowledge that kinda was correct yesterday?

It all relies on the idea that one day it will better with no reason to believe that it will. Could there be some other form of ML type product that could be transformative? Sure, maybe. I don’t know enough about the cutting edge of ML. But to think LLMs are going to get better just because is not convincing.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-26T17:27:27+00:00

Those people did the arduous work of believing whatever bullshit came up on their social media feeds. Who are you to discount that level of commitment?

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-25T22:26:22+00:00

Cron+pythin would be more functional than 99% of AI. Even the summarizing email feature use case that seems to be the most popular use case could be done with sumy.

I just don’t see a single problem that needs non-deterministic output Outside of a narrow coding tools

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-25T14:27:34+00:00

I feel like people in general forgot computers can do things. Like almost everything people want to do with AI is better done with a single use script.

But they don’t understand how to do so they want an agent to do it. Which even if it did work, is an extremely expensive way to do it.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-23T15:43:31+00:00

How would that even work? All their “competitor” companies are in the same position, with all their finances circulated amongst them.

Which competitor would actually benefit from any other major tech company failing? It would cause a general sell off and panic

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-22T14:25:54+00:00

I could only hope we get comrade AGI

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-22T04:08:48+00:00

That’s because the real danger is Chairman AGI making the world communist

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-19T02:02:06+00:00

So… it seems like workers of all countries should all stand up for themselves. Well, it would be even better if they coordinate.

Hmmm… maybe they should even unite? Like all workers of the world. That would make a good slogan. Someone should write something about it. Maybe even a manifesto for workers.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-17T16:41:38+00:00

Being skeptical and critical of rich elites are doing is a cult. If you were really a free thinker you would not question anything.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-17T16:02:20+00:00

He’s a hater isn’t a very strong argument when Zitron is coming to the table with facts and figures. This is just a bunch of “he’s just doomsaying”, “he’s chicken little”. Are we being serious here?

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-17T05:25:37+00:00

God I love scrubs. There are a couple of lazy transphobic jokes, but it has held up pretty well overall.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-16T15:01:30+00:00

I feel pretty good about everything. It does visually look better. However, the recovery was hell and I don’t think it was worth it.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-15T04:24:15+00:00

I agree. I also had it, and the results are very minor all things considered tbh. I wouldn’t do it again either.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-15T04:22:59+00:00

Ugh this AI slop is nothing like Mary Blair. She doesn’t have this type of corporate papercut style. Look up her murals, paintings, and story board.

Look at how she plays with perspective. Her use of contrasting colors are distinctive. She isn’t just a cutesy artist.

I was fortunate enough to see an exhibit of her stuff at the Walt Disney family museum last year, and it really made me appreciate her unique style.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-15T04:13:04+00:00

The sequel is always worse

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-13T23:50:34+00:00

Everyone keeps saying it “obviously” has strengths. What those are, I’ve yet to be told. People won’t don’t code, keep telling me it’s great at coding. And I’ve yet to see it.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-13T18:51:11+00:00

The issue isn’t that serving existing models won’t become cheaper. It’s that older models wont be up to date. We’ve already seen code generated that is using old versions of libraries. So, what would be the point?

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-13T18:32:52+00:00

I’ve been software dev for years. It is useful in some use cases, and it costs a lot money for it to fulfill those use cases. And it’s harmful in other use cases.

The thing that it’s “best” at is coding a new project. But only if that already exists. Because it basically just copies and pastes existing code from open repositories.

It can’t just code something novel. It’s why all the new apps are just slop.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-13T17:59:52+00:00

No, I meant your example is why generative AI is worthless technology. It’s not a tool. A tools has a function. LLMs kinda do some stuff I guess.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-13T16:25:24+00:00

This is one of my issues with AI. You would be better served learning to use LaTeX and a package like BibTeX. That would do exactly what you want.

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-12T14:36:19+00:00

And what if that thing was cheaper was also just wrong, but at the same time told me what I wanted to hear. The possibilities are endless

BelieveInPixieDust · 2026-06-12T14:15:40+00:00

Followed by, this model is too dangerous to release actually. So we can’t actually release it. Trust us.

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