You Cannot Spell “Pain” Without AI

A personal rant about the downsides of AI's rapid adoption in the tech industry. Key frustrations include: AI-generated content flooding social platforms like LinkedIn, making them less authentic; the explosion of mediocre, useless software built just because AI makes it easy; corporations mandating AI adoption as a KPI metric rather than focusing on actual outcomes (Goodhart's Law); the erosion of genuine human writing; and LLMs threatening the open web by commoditizing both content production and consumption. The author is not anti-AI but argues that forced, performative adoption is harmful and that the industry is optimizing for AI usage metrics rather than real value.