Robert A. Hill1d ago

I don't think I have ever read a more concise and yet thorough explanation of my own observations, conclusions, and fears as a 20+ year veteran technology professional and 15 year SRE veteran.

We are actively tearing down the hard fought wins for ourselves and our customers in the chase for the MBAs and business idiots and the institutional knowledge and processes that solved huge problems are the victims of this AI circlejerk.

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

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@robert

> They’ve never computed a baseline.

“How will you know it works?”
“Oh, I’ll know!”

/me screams into the abyss

Although having read some other blog posts there, I wanna scream even more. Especially the one on determinism. Broken clock and all that.

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