AI Is Really Weird

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A critical analysis of the AI industry's current state, arguing that the hype far outpaces reality. Key points include: AI 'agents' are fundamentally just chatbots connected to APIs with limited real-world capability; LLM-generated code creates security vulnerabilities and review backlogs rather than productivity gains; AI

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Apr 08•55m read time•From wheresyoured.at

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We Are Not In The Early Days of AI, And It’s Weird To Say That We Are Why Is Everybody Lying About What AI and “Agents” Can Actually Do?Let’s Talk About The Actual Consequences of Coding LLMs The Economics Of AI Are Weird And Bad, And It’s Even Weirder That People Try And Normalize Them It’s Weird That The Media Continues To Normalize OpenAI And Anthropic Losing Billions of Dollars Does Meta’s “TokenMaxxing” Account For A Quarter of Anthropic’s Revenue?Measuring Worker Output In Token Consumption Is Incredibly Weird, and TokenMaxxing Is Not A Sustainable Business Model TokenMaxxing Is A Valley-Wide Problem, Raising The Costs of Running Any Software Team Based On How AI-Crazed Your CEO Has Become — And When Cost Cuts Begin, API Revenue Will Collapse The AI Bubble Is Weird, Irrational and Wasteful, And It’s Even Weirder That It’s A Fringe Opinion To Say So