'AI Will Fix It' Has Become the Expert Consensus on Every Hard Problem
granawkins · x · 2026-09-04
Developer granawkins reflects that for structural challenges — the debt spiral, aging populations, healthcare and education costs, re-shoring manufacturing — the expert consensus is often a hand-wavy 'AI will fix it.' He's as deep in the AI kool-aid as anyone and doesn't support banning it, but finds how often AI substitutes for an actual plan startling.
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