AI6YR Ben5d ago

The AI Great Leap Forward
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

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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...

Han, Not Solo
Show threadJanne Upla

@ai6yr the "backyard furnace" simile wrt ai is the one i've too had in mind for a long time.

perfectly sensible people suggest 'using ai' for basic automation tasks that've possible since the 70's or supposedly technically capable ones pasting reams of babble amounting to 'maybe you have an uncaught error somewhere' when others are trying to find where that error is..

Apr 9 at 7:47amTusky
Show threadarclight5d ago

@geospaz @ai6yr A peer recently seriously suggested using an LLM to sort a short text list.

In other news, Tony Hoare hasn't been dead a month and this is where we are now.

Show threadcambria4d ago
@arclight
One of my coworkers used Claude to find all occurrences of a team name in a directory of JSON files...
@geospaz @ai6yr
Show threadarclight4d ago
@cambria @geospaz @ai6yr I bought a used copy of UNIX Power Tools for a coworker so he had a clear and simple (and large) reference to learn from. He's a safety engineering team lead, not a dev or ops person but he had hacked one of my test automation scripts to run production cases in his own. I was happy and proud of that. We need to own our tools.
Show threadJanne Upla4d ago
@cambria @arclight @ai6yr