And the places that do code with generative AI all have quality issues. Their management blames it on the remaining developers not checking and rewriting the AI code enough.
Fake It Till You Make It? Builder.ai’s $1.5B AI Scam Exposed
Submitted 3 weeks ago by rosschie@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The management tends to be in the ASPD direction, and the developers tend to be in the ASD and ADHD direction. Not the majority, not even many people, but there’s a substrate in the cultures, so to say.
Sort of hostile kinds of mind.
The management in such situations dreams of replacing all the developers with “AI” or making them low-paid maintenance element so much, that people of that kind already gloat in the interwebs before that has come even close to happening.
I’ve seen a justification made that “it’s you nerd types who loved to promise replacing all other professions, especially management, in the 00s”, it doesn’t really explain anything, because in that course of thought you just replace lower-level programming with higher-level programming.
But personally I think it’s very simple - the management thinks they are the most valuable people, they create the “ideas” and hire metaphorical brick-laying workers who then fulfill those genial ideas. They see developers as such.
While developers look at this like people who are approached from time to time by clueless apes wanting something and thinking they’re visionaries, whose wishes need to be guessed, critically cleansed and cracked into something barely making sense, from which then a developer derives some specific project goal and makes the clueless ape agree that this is what they meant.
The management works with social matters, the developers with, ahem, how the universe really functions, a level below. The management generally belongs to a culture where everything is weighed on their social level.
OK, what I really wanted to say is that there are 3 “elements”, so to say, here, leadership, metis (in Ancient Greek) and labor. Management ignores metis, developers ignore leadership, unqualified labor doesn’t see the difference between these two, and since both covertly seek affirmation from unqualified labor, it’s a perpetual conflict.
robolemmy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No link, just an image.
rosschie@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
sorry here’s the link ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-collapses-15bn-ai-startup…
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The scandal serves as a stark reminder that whilst artificial intelligence continues advancing rapidly, human expertise remains irreplaceable in many complex technical domains—a lesson that Builder.ai learned through public humiliation rather than honest business practices.
duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of the Amazon Fresh “just walk out” grocery shopping experience where the store is packed with cameras monitored by “advanced ai” that would tally up the total of the items in your cart.
It would take a few hours for them to email a receipt to let you know what you’d spent and the advanced ai turned out to be low-wage workers in India watching the video feeds.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I mean I’ve never used one of those but I also wouldn’t care how it got done if I did. Just that I didn’t have to spend my time waiting in line to check out. Actually prefer them to pay money to real people rather than invent some fancy technology.
duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s true, I don’t mind people being paid at all. I’d rather that than some dodgy AI.
I still found it funny that Amazon was implying this was some kind of technology marvel when it really just boiled down to webcams.