Practitioner Slams AI Industry for Being Bathed in Half-Assed Snake Oil Products
generativist · x · 2026-08-12
Tech practitioner @generativist expressed strong frustration with the current AI ecosystem on X. He argues that the industry is currently saturated with unprecedented levels of 'bullshit,' emphasizing that the core issue isn't AI itself, but the legions of builders using it to create half-assed products that don't actually work and are barely understood at a fundamental level by their creators.
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