Comment by deathanatos

… all this hype, and just … where are the macro level results? GitHub is seemingly having more outages than ever before, and MS is pretty directly involved in the AI hype; should they be a beacon of how great AI's output is? Yet obvious bugs that have persisted for years still languish. My day job is more and more feeling like I'm fighting just to get tooling or services to do the most basic things they were allegedly designed to do.

On the other hand, you have AI companies claiming "we built a browser from scratch" — and then having that claim utterly eviscerated. I cannot fathom going to my boss and requesting "$1,000/day per engineer" for AI — that's an absurd amount of money.

And yet, whenever I actually do try to get AI to meet the road … it is just query and query after clarifying query that humans would not and do not need. E.g., trying to ask clarifying questions about tsc, and TS, and … just wrong answer after wrong answer, or even just misunderstanding the question entirely. Trying to file a support ticket in big clouds now requires wading through AI slop that doesn't solve anything, just to get to a human whose writing feels suspiciously like you've been shoveled a second dose of slop. Like I just finished a quarter long ticket with GCP on "IAM is not functioning to spec, and we can clearly and concisely prove it" to get back a very long form "we don't care".