[sega_sai]

I find these sorts of takes to be tiresome. It is absolutely true there is a lot of hype around AI. Also it is true that many AI companies try to shove AI into everything without necessarily thinking wherer it is a good idea or whether it useful (talking to you Google). Notwithstanding this it is absolutely clear how transformational the technology is. For low skill tasks it can certainly substitute people and save a lot of time. For harder things one has to be more careful and the right model have to be used, i.e. it is not a silver bullet but just a powerful tool which means it needs to be used in conjunction with other tools

[emp17344]

You’re gonna keep seeing takes like this until expectations meet the reality of the tools, because the hype is absolutely insane right now. I think it’s good to push back against the current narrative.

[lm28469]

For every employee using LLM for productivity you have 50 who use it to bullshit their way up the ladder, generate overly verbose emails, reports, bug reports, &c.

My wife's team spent 20+ man hours analyzing and trying to fufil the requests of one of their biggest customer, in the end it turned out to be a fully llm generated feature request email from someone who didn't quite understand the product in the first place...

When you save one hour on a coding task somewhere someone spends two hours trying to parse some bullshit email or report. I'm convinced it's a net negative overall

[yeasku]

I dont undertand why you are beibg downvoted

[y0eswddl]

Because too many people are just as sycophant towards AI as it is towards us...

[Libidinalecon]

Most business tasks are not low skilled language tasks that are so easy to automate. I am helping rebuild a business right now that has a call center and LLMs are basically useless for us.

It is actually kind of shocking how I can go home and learn about quantum computing from LLMs but find them useless for simple business processes. This though I think exemplifies the entire mistake of the bubble. Most business processes don't benefit at all from understanding the Hamiltonian of a system. Most business processes are simple tasks that are the end result of previous automation. In practice, most business processes in 2025 are simple processes done by a human who can deal with the random uncertainty and distribution shift that inevitably comes up. Exactly what a language isn't good but it is even beyond that. So much of what a customer service agent for example is doing is dealing with uncertainty and externality. There is the process that LLMs aren't good anyway but then there is the human judgement on when to disregard the process because of various externalities. The trivial business processes LLMs would be good at automating have already been automated years ago or the business went out of business years ago. AGI would in theory be amazing at all this too but we don't have AGI. We have language models that have a very limited use case beyond an interactive version of Wikipedia. I love the interactive version of Wikipedia but it is not worth trillions of dollars.

[kk58]

Im curious I've seen very different results for automation of business processes. Could you share an example of what you're dealing with?

[bdangubic]

takes are there cause AI is so bad that no one reads anything else orher than stories about how AI is so bad :)

[rsynnott]

> For low skill tasks it can certainly substitute people and save a lot of time.

I mean, per the article, only if you don’t care about correctness. There aren’t actually that many use cases where correctness doesn’t matter at all.

[mnky9800n]

Yes. I think the hype is crazy and also the tools are awesome. Like the other day i had all this different documentation in different files. .tex, .md, .docx, .xlsx, it was a mess and I needed to put it together into a summary document that could be shared with stakeholders because they aren't going to read through all that and make sense of it. So I dropped them in a folder and asked claude code to do it and 5 minutes later I had something I could edit a bit and send out. That would have been at least half a days worth of work. Did it fudge some bits? yes but then i just fixed it and everything is fine.

to me i think all the hype comes from promises of C3P0s and R2D2s instead pitching it as building computational tools that make you more efficient or give you new ways to model your ideas inside a computer.