Aside from the technology stack being the embodiment of vendor lock-in and misery, the scamming is really what makes me not want to work on Generative AI tasks, or whatever the next hype thing is going to be.
The worst part is that many people want to be scammed. We have customers come to us, asking for a solution to a problem they’ve had for long time, and asking it to be solved with GenAI.
Then we tell them that there’s really no use-case for GenAI there, that it could be better solved for half the money using traditional methods.
At which point, they ask us to integrate GenAI in some place anyways, because otherwise their boss will not give them the money. And of course, that boss also has a boss who also only frees up budget for GenAI.
And that just repeats upwards, until you have shareholders at the top, who eat up the hype, because other shareholders eat up the hype.
And if you tell them “no” too often they’ll choose your scummy competitor who’ll just tell them “yeah we put all the AI in it, whatever” over you who want to actually help them.
Aside from the technology stack being the embodiment of vendor lock-in and misery, the scamming is really what makes me not want to work on Generative AI tasks, or whatever the next hype thing is going to be.
The worst part is that many people want to be scammed. We have customers come to us, asking for a solution to a problem they’ve had for long time, and asking it to be solved with GenAI.
Then we tell them that there’s really no use-case for GenAI there, that it could be better solved for half the money using traditional methods.
At which point, they ask us to integrate GenAI in some place anyways, because otherwise their boss will not give them the money. And of course, that boss also has a boss who also only frees up budget for GenAI.
And that just repeats upwards, until you have shareholders at the top, who eat up the hype, because other shareholders eat up the hype.
And if you tell them “no” too often they’ll choose your scummy competitor who’ll just tell them “yeah we put all the AI in it, whatever” over you who want to actually help them.
import tensorflow # we don't actually use this anywhere, but my boss told the client we use AI