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AI creates the most spectacular happy path demos. It’s hard not to extrapolate to infinity when you see it.
by itsafarqueue 11mo ago
AI creates the most spectacular happy path demos. It’s hard not to extrapolate to infinity when you see it.
- rhetocj23 11mo agoPeople have a bias to want to believe something works in all cases, when it seemingly offers benefits to them. Especially when there’s a sunk investment involved.
- rsynnott 11mo agoThis was always kind of a problem with the “this will make icky programmers obsolete” techs. Like, so did MS Access and a couple generations of click-and-drag ‘no-code’ stuff. Not to mention Rails; remember when everyone thought that would radically increase productivity? I’m pretty sure that was entirely because it was well-suited to “make a todo list/fake twitter/whatever in half an hour” demos.