AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

samizdis 13 points 2 comments March 17, 2026
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al_borland

Even if it did work well, with such a rough start and years of false promises, who is really going to trust it? Everyone who does seems to be riding the hype wave.

conception

This is a hilarious article. “It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless.” “This magic that literally didn’t exist two years ago in more than a toy state is moving at such a rapid rate that it couldn’t even reproduce sqlite three months ago and only got better enough in those weeks to produce a bad version of sqlite! Clearly useless! It has no value, no one is using it to do any work and won’t get better over the next three months or three years!” An amazing take.

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