The AI rollout is here - and it's messy | FT Working It

We are in the era of solutions trying to find the problem(s) that it can solve.!

7:25 As a developer, I can assure you that “speed of code written” is not a valuable metric in of itself. Has the code been properly tested? If an AI was used to generate those tests, were the tests manually reviewed thoroughly? Ensuring that it didn’t make a suite full of garbage tests, just so that it can get close to a 100% pass rate. A multiplier of this makes work more challenging, not easy. Is it maintainable? Did it make a bunch of unnecessary abstractions that make it difficult to understand? Again, a multiplier of this makes the work more challenging, not easy. Did it generate code using outdated dependencies that have been subjected to numerous security issues? This multiplies the number of security risks, which again, makes the work more challenging. I understand that the speed of delivery is important. However, if you develop at a speed where you disregard these concerns, they’ll come back to bite you eventually and cause greater harm than if you took the correct precautions in the first place.

These people are hilarious. Literally begging people to use it and intimating at some nebulous benefits without ever showing any receipts. Just a bunch of lifeless grifters.

AI will be foisted on employees and used as an excuse for layoffs, hiring freezes and making the remaining employees work harder to clean up the mess AI made meanwhile top management will give themselves a big bonus for AI adoption.

If it really added value, you wouldn't need to talk in circles and in such vague terms to get companies and people to adopt it. The early internet had obvious value; the iPhone had obvious value. AI pushers are literally saying it must have some kind of value, but you need to figure that part out on your own - and let us know when you do.

Only interviews with individuals in C suites at companies that have massive stakes in this new industry not failing, and not a single voice in this whole piece giving a sane counter argument.

AI snake oil salesmen are everywhere, nowadays. 😂😂😂

This breakthrough is incredible, but watching it made me think about something I read in Selwyn Raithe's book . The book talks about how we celebrate each AI milestone without noticing we're actually witnessing the systematic replacement of human purpose. The scariest part isn't the technology itself, it's how willingly we applaud our own obsolescence.

I like how the FT will speak to literally anyone except the actual scientists or engineers. Of course the business types have an important perspective but why does the technical side get completely abstracted away?

1 it's not AI. It's LLM Language model... man this gonna burst badly

AI is overrated AF. I try to use it as often as possible in my engineering work, but it often fails so badly in giving reliable and on point information. As many already said, these are just models regurgitating words based on probabilities.

Getting AI to write a project takes almost as much time as writing it yourself

I work in a fairly niche field, I’d say—customs audit for one of the companies that’s part of the Magnificent Seven. This AI is being shoved down our throats by a company that can’t even build a tool capable of properly converting an unreadable PDF into a readable one. As for its customs knowledge, it constantly hallucinates.

as a 38 year old watching this, it’s fascinating how chaotic the AI rollout actually is. Companies are pouring billions into these tools, but adoption is never just about technology, it’s about people, habits, and culture. You can have the most advanced AI, but if employees don’t actually use it effectively, all that investment is wasted. I started noticing how these rollouts are also carefully framed in the media, after reading the luciferian manipulation by Dante Malrick, it really opened my eyes to how narratives around innovation are used to manage perception and hype, not just efficiency. Once you see it, the buzz around AI transformation feels a lot less random, fr..

11:12 yes nothing calms me more than receiving a robot written polite e-mail... Are these people living on a diffrent planet?

AI is so amazing and so smart and so easy to use that you need to spend hours and hours learning how to prompt it. People need to be trained on how to use it - of course, makes sense. /s

AI is garbage. Workslop shows how crap it is. Why are we forcing it? It reminds me of how everyone was crazy for blockchain. It was going to change the world and hasn't really.

I work in the oil industry and in an operation were needing to fill a 6km 36" inch pipe thru a 1" hose with 15 bars back pressure. I hadnt done it before and asked ChatGPT how long time it would take. It estimated 38 minutes. In reality it took 10 hours 😅 And that is how useful current AI is in my profession. Its hillarious that they blame the users for not getting a productivity gain.,

It costs OpenAI $7.77 for every dollar of revenue. That's quite a business model. The hyperscalers preach they are disrupting the business world but so far the world is shrugging.

Global trend - AI is a bubble, Ft start of this video - We see more risk mitigation than excitement on AI from company reports and filings. Sleazy Salesman - Pay us now and you will get great AI, the best AI, productivity +7000%. FT journalist - Yeah but there are no major productivity gains so far. Sleazy salesman - pay us and use it first then ask about productivity gains. But most importantly pay us. Meanwhile, the CEO of a company: oh yeah that AI thing is great. We have spent an enormous amount of money and paid the salesman, all of them, and we have incredible results, believe me. Im not saying this to justify the waste of money and astronomical investment our company made, please believe me.