AI Enthusiasts Race Against Time, Skeptics Race Against Entropy(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

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AI Enthusiasts Race Against Time, Skeptics Race Against Entropy

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusiasts-are-in-a-race-against

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Smooshmese scorso

> they described these projects as a horror show. Yes, they allowed, some progress was made, and some of it was pretty cool, but he also left a long, fiery trail of chaos in his wake. Months later, some teams were still grinding through waves of cleanup work.

That has been my experience with supporting and maintaining many large systems, so this has long been the case even without AI.

I assume the use of AI allows the crappy, flawed systems to be developed faster and perhaps cheaper.