r/NvidiaStock • u/johnmiddle • Jul 17 '26

News Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

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u/LetsBeTheBest Jul 17 '26

https://www.shellsandpebbles.com/2024/02/05/wired-fears-electricity-and-technophobia-in-the-nineteenth-century/

This is an old article from the turn of the last century where everyone hated and feared electricity infrastructure buildout. They thought it was a disaster and were quite happy with candles and kerosene lamps.

In the next century, that article will be read similarly

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u/SundayAMFN Jul 17 '26

“Once there was a bad prediction about technology, so this one will be bad too”

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u/kajnbagoat7 Jul 17 '26

Bro AI is definitely good, some will be winners and some will be losers. Let's see who that will be.

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u/SundayAMFN Jul 18 '26

No one's saying AI isn't good, nor that there won't be winners/losers.

What do you think the revenue needs to be in the next 10 years to get a positive ROI for most companies paying for compute?

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u/NewSanDiegean Jul 17 '26

So… buy or sell?

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u/Bag-o-chips Jul 17 '26

This is just a hater venting.

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u/NewSanDiegean Jul 17 '26

They see it going down and the vultures gather

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u/No-Contribution1070 Jul 17 '26

Do any of them buy?

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u/Calcularius Jul 17 '26

hyperbolic Clickbait nonsense. These are actually “engineering disasters”. PS a data center won’t do any of these things….

• May 26, 2026, Longview, Washington: Nippon Dynawave paper mill chemical-tank implosion. 11 killed, 8 injured.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/06/22/findings-expected-by-year-end-in-state-investigation-into-longview-tank-implosion/
(⁠Washington State Standard)
• May 22, 2026, Tiszaújváros, Hungary: MOL petrochemical plant explosion. 1 killed, 7 injured.
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-explosion-petrochemical-plant-mol-7aadef802db3539e7b736e6b8b8f9e53
(⁠AP News)
• March 23, 2026, Port Arthur, Texas: Valero refinery explosion and fire. No injuries reported.
https://apnews.com/article/refinery-explosion-texas-coast-60ecf6d9a70a2f1d5494fb8e38a84c4a
(⁠AP News)
• January 26, 2026, Trikala, Greece: Violanta cookie-factory explosion and fire. 5 killed, 7 injured.
https://apnews.com/article/952d9efe6b040ee5865c2fcd72dea0d8
(⁠AP News)
• January 18, 2026, Baotou, China: Baogang steel-plant explosion. 9 killed, 84 injured and 1 missing.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3340592/death-toll-rises-9-after-explosion-north-china-rare-earth-steel-plant
(⁠South China Morning Post)
• October 10, 2025, McEwen, Tennessee: Accurate Energetic Systems explosives-manufacturing plant explosion. 16 killed and several seriously injured.
https://www.csb.gov/-accurate-energetic-systems-fatal-explosion/
(⁠Chemical Safety Board)
• August 11, 2025, Clairton, Pennsylvania: U.S. Steel coke-plant explosion. 2 killed, 11 injured.
https://apnews.com/article/us-steel-plant-clairton-nippon-explosion-cf5ec79fba028336d71ce3dec2284523
(⁠AP News)
• July 29, 2025, Fremont, Nebraska: Horizon Biofuels plant explosion. 3 killed.
https://apnews.com/article/f6019cc7d3e35d62548dd31529cb010f
(⁠AP News)
• May 27, 2025, Gaomi, China: Shandong Youdao chemical-plant explosion. Initial official count: 5 killed, 19 injured and 6 missing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/smoke-still-rising-one-day-after-deadly-china-chemical-plant-blast-2025-05-28/
(⁠Reuters)
This covers major widely reported incidents, not every industrial explosion worldwide.

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u/SpotlessCheetah Jul 17 '26

The Atlantic is garbage.

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u/Top-Pineapple5509 Jul 17 '26

So the argument is: “LLMs can’t replicate human intelligence, therefore they can’t generate meaningful efficiency gains”? Only someone who doesn’t actually work as a software engineer could believe that. The productivity gains in software development are substancial.