Fuck AI

It's a question of using the right tool for the right job, but CEOs that don't even know the job, nor the tools it needs, fall for charlatans selling them snake oil that'll magically increase revenue, cut expenses or otherwise make them look good when the time for allotting their bonus comes around. And why wouldn't they? They're not the ones to pay for their fuckup. They'll step down, get a chonky farewell gift and the employees taking pay cuts, losing their jobs or just suffering under the increased workload are left holding the bag.

For text processing with negligible precision, LLMs may be a great fit. For repetitive, primitive coding tasks in the hands of a senior coder, they can save time. For replacing humans, they lack critical thinking and semantic understanding.

Add to that the issue that, even if AI did bring the promised savings, that wouldn't benefit the general public, particularly the people whose prospects for a job are now fucked along with their prospects for a living. This is a social factor that no discussion of tool aptitude or AI applications can solve.