Flutterby™! : navigating AI hype.

navigating AI hype.

2026-09-04 18:19:44.556179+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Lest you think I'm all anti-LLM all the time, I'm pondering <antirez> Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

And... I've been led astray by Google Gemini, and had it delete data. I'm feeling very much like my coworker who's using Claude Code is introducing a lot of subtle regressions, but it's hard to really point my finger at it. I totally get the absolutists, but, you know, I live in the United States, I definitely have some malleable ethics. And I know that when I rely on LLMs I not only don't learn anything, I'm misinformed, and most of the business processes in which "AI" is introduced are there to make life worse for the customer/consumer.

And, of course, it's obviously a bubble that's going to have tremendous economic impact on us all when it pops.

So I'm trying to navigate all of this...

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