nitwit005

No goal, and no results, but a younger guy was enthused about AI!

Then you might be incentivized to deliberately go into debt strategically, and remove the sitting opposition if you think you'll lose the next election.

I was going to echo the same. I'm less bothered by the hype than the vagueness of it all. Use AI, management doesn't know what for, figure it out. Also, prove productivity gains somehow, we're not sure how to do that, figure that out as well. Figure out AI security too, we saw a scary article about that.

There's no obvious reason to reward people for failing. If it's necessary for the economy to not collapse, nationalize it, either wiping the shareholders out or paying the current (presumably low) price, and sell it later.

The call to protest at some specific location and time might be "artificial", but people have to want to protest. Trump has simply managed to inspire millions to do so.

> I have seen small groups and solo engineers fly past the usual process of writing product requirements documents (PRDs), getting buy-in, and lobbying for time with designers or product managers by building a working prototype.

Getting time with someone isn't success. A lot of companies have some hackathon week or similar. People are going to see hundreds of demos or prototypes every time that happens.

The problem is, projects generally need staff, and getting that assigned requires influence these people are apparently lacking:

> engineers without social capital, status, or power.

That it is used for other things is not in dispute by anyone.

> Amazon’s standout AI model — organized under the name “Nova” — is about the farthest thing from a household name.

I have tried asking people if they've ever used an AI product from certain companies, and you only seem to get "no", or surprise that they have any AI products, for some.

I'd say the evidence rather strongly suggests people are mostly going to discord to talk about video games and share anime art.

The most popular servers are for AI companies, and video games.

Which is not too surprising for a platform heavily designed around supporting video gaming.

The people working remotely are often still in a city, just a different city. Now they're back to commuting and simply adding to transit maintenance and congestion.

We're discussing essentially a failure case here. They wasted their time unsuccessfully trying to get media attention.

Meta does have an AI support assistant, which presumably also failed them.

> The system achieved its strongest results using OpenAI’s GPT-5, with additional testing showing improvements using GPT-5.5.

If it's basically dumping details into ChatGPT, I'd wonder why the hospital would bother paying Microsoft. They can ask it to simulate a panel of physicians too.

Companies have expanded vertically though. Usually it's not all that challenging. Manufacturers often have to build a small version of the real thing, such as a mining tools company needing a test mine.

The barrier is often that the investors aren't fond of the heavy investment and risks involved. Using AI to generate some app would presumably not have the same level of concern.