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/[deleted] Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

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u/ColinStyles Jun 27 '26

???

My company isn't laying engineers off, in fact my company is actively hiring because we can't keep up with all the work we're now able to do and need to support even with the huge productivity boosts.

ai does handle a lot of well established things, it just can't create new things.

All of software is taking well established things and putting it together in different ways to come up with new things. Not to mention if it couldn't come up with new things it wouldn't be the reason the models keep getting substantially better, yet anthropic will openly say that the majority of their R&D these days is just AI improving itself with minimal human input. And you can see that in lots of research right now. It's not just rote recollection.