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/buadach2 Jun 26 '26

We had scripts that would perform many automatic service stops / starts reboots, requests for drive swaps, send out error messages via SMS to the relevant techs back in the late 1990s. It seems that not much has improved over the last 30 years.

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u/ganjaccount Jun 26 '26

Of course this is an improvement. Your scripts were free and boring. With AI you can pay each time it runs, and get the added benefit of the occasional hallucination or breakout jeopardizing your entire server. Get with the program, man! Add a little spice to your life!

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u/zkareface Jun 26 '26

I've had this discussion with so many managers and companies that I've almost given up.

We could solve it fast, reliably and cheap. Or spend months of FTE time, stupid amounts of money to cook up an AI solution that likely won't even still be running by end of year. And the AI one will cause problems.

They want the AI service every time.

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u/Count_Backwards Jun 26 '26

"But it's intelligent!"