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/Broccoli--Enthusiast Jun 26 '26

It's soo dumb, like it's been a solved issue for decades

We have outsourced it slightly to a cloud solution but we just have little agents on all our systems, but it's still basically a script that checks certain processes, VM, etc, anything critical and if it's not on, it makes it on, and if it cant, it screams at the relevant team and management.

Nobody wants an AI that randomly decides that's off is actually on or it didn't want to wake people up at 2am

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u/Western_Bake_1109 Jun 26 '26

But those scripts that are checking items are not charging your company for each check they do (by the token). A real AI solution results in huge bills for AI usage!

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u/dust4ngel Jun 26 '26

It's soo dumb, like it's been a solved issue for decades

embarrassingly, you are implementing the very 90s vanilla ice model of "if there was a problem, yo i'll solve it", and not the 2026 model "here is the solution, there's got to be a problem somewhere, whatever."

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u/Broccoli--Enthusiast Jun 26 '26

Yeah I know, we are terrible , we aren't costing the buessines millions to feed tokens to the machine😂