Some of this AI brings to mind the old Despair "Incompetence" poster (https://despair.com/products/incompetence)

When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.

For those too young to remember, once upon a time people went into an office to work. And sometimes HR put up motivational posters. And this spawned humorous demotiviational posters.

If you're still confused, they're memes that printed, framed, and hung on a wall.

I have gone back to manual coding to remove this AI induced laziness because i discovered immediately the LLM starts making some useless engineering decisions it does it like it knows what it's doing and also very deceptive and sometimes it's just easier to do it by myself other than trying to get the AI to do it,LLMS get so confidently wrong.

All I know is that when I look through my clients' Jira boards, I see an explosion of bugs, outages, and other problems, starting 2 years ago and ramping up so fast that none of the teams can keep up.

If AI were working as well as people claim, I'd expect the opposite - work getting delivered faster than the product managers can spec it. Bugs speeding right through the SDLC process. Jira boards sitting mostly empty.

As I'm not seeing that, I'm inclined to agree that this whole industry is falling into "industrious and stupid"

AI is simply not an officer. It's a tool. At best, it's a stupid and lazy officer, mere information routers and supervisors.

It sounds smart, but it's autocomplete. If a group of students uses it to get ideas for an essay, the whole class will write the same essay, starring the same "Sarah Chen (no relations to Marcus Chen)".

That said, throughout history we've delegated decision making to tools. Bone reading, palm reading, face reading, dice, cards, horoscope, diviners, prophets. AI is just the latest, and 50 years from now we'll be shaking our heads at how the people in 2025 blindly trusted them.

The stupid+industrious problem gets worse in 1-on-1 setup. AI has no competing voice to push back against its own industriousness. Maybe the fix is putting it in a room with 30 people who disagree

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