EnshittifAIcation

A system administrator shares three real-world incidents from a single week where AI-powered bots and consultancies caused significant problems: an AI bot recommending Apache configuration on an nginx server and threatening service suspension, another AI system hallucinating VPN requirements while ignoring repeated explanations about firewall-level blocking, and a marketing consultancy's AI recommending migrating from a 128 GB RAM dedicated server to an 8 GB cloud VPS. The author argues that companies are replacing senior professionals with AI systems that project extreme confidence without actual competence, creating confusion, wasted time, and eroded reliability. The core critique is that AI systems are stochastic machines with hard limits — they don't learn from conversation, don't know what they don't know, and the damage from over-relying on them risks far outweighing any cost savings.