Comment by augusteo

The frustrating part isn't that the project failed. It's that it was marketed as a success.

I use AI coding tools daily. They're genuinely useful for real work. But stunts like this make it harder to have honest conversations about what AI can and can't do. When executives see "AI built a browser in 3 million lines," they form expectations that set everyone up for disappointment.

The gap between AI demos and AI in production is wider than most people realize. We'd all be better off if people stopped optimizing for impressiveness and started optimizing for honesty.