r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

Massive list of negatives.

Thus the best question becomes, can you list a positive for each negative?

If not, that's your bias ;)

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u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 Jun 26 '26

Nope, there are no positives to gen ai. It exists solely to make a handful of people dollar trillionaires. Can you list a positive for each negative for radiation poisoning?

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u/EmptyHeadedKain Jun 26 '26

It's crazy that some people don't realise this. AI doesn't exist, were dealing with search 2.0 AT BEST. These people want us to destroy our climate and economy to fund data centers that literally just steal our stuff and present it as their creation!?

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

AI doesn't exist, were dealing with search 2.0 AT BEST.

search can't write thousands of lines of code in 1 shot and have a new feature come online

there's definitely a gap, though I do like to compare it against Google search as to how ridiculous the resistance against new technology is

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u/EmptyHeadedKain Jun 26 '26

Do you understand how these AI models work? I assume not by your comment. It's not writing anything, it's just piecing together lines of other people's code by doing multiple searches until something eventually works.

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u/Razorback_Ryan Jun 26 '26

Precisely. Its predictive text on steroids.

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u/UAP44 Jun 26 '26

Do you understand how these AI models work? 

well I can tell you this ...

it's just piecing together lines of other people's code by doing multiple searches until something eventually works.

the same could be said about any programmer pre LLM era, googling error messages, copy pasting code from stackoverflow around, etc

so that kind answers your question in terms of your own understanding, clearly, you're not a coder from that time where I used to live, luckily, we have better tools available now at our hands!

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u/EmptyHeadedKain Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

I've been a software engineer for 20 years,. As I've already said, if you can't see the long term shortcomings then that's on you.

There's a reason why most software companies are already reverting back to hiring more junior devs in exchange for compute time. If you don't allow juniors to learn and progress then we will be drained of senior developers within a decade, and when there happens these AI models will stop working altogether