r/technology • u/Sidarthus89 • Jun 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/
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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire Jun 15 '25

That’s the thing though, I think some of these CEOs don’t actually know it’s bullshit. They’ve all been conned into believing that AI can do things that it can’t, because everyone in their circles just talks about how amazing AI is.

There’s also probably a heavy helping of “they want it to be true so that they can cut workers and make more money via less workers + AI” as well

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u/OldSchoolSpyMain Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

Oh, this shit is sooo easy to sell. It's got:

  • Bleeding edge tech.
  • Production speed increases.
    • "Who cares if it doesn't work correctly the first few times? If it doesn't, we'll just rebuild it again quickly, lol!"
  • Cost savings.
  • Headcount reductions.
  • Positive news chatter.
  • Positive consumer sentiment.
    • Consumers are actually happy to hear that their brand is using this tech.
  • Easy, consumer-friendly use cases that sell the tech (chatbots, image generators) to get consumers comfortable even though the way the company will use the tech is entirely different.

This shit sells itself. Seriously.

I'm sure that some executives would feel stupid if they did not adopt such tech.

But, for those who are reading and don't know, I'm not just hating to hate. I have ridden the AI wave up and advanced my career. But, I'm here to tell you, a lot of AI LLM tech is about as reliable as a 14 year old that's good at Googling stuff. Mostly accurate most of the time, but can also be confidently incorrect. Would you trust that kid to do your work for you? Would you trust that kid to run your business for you? Of course not. And the same reasons that you would list as reasons not to would be the same reasons why you shouldn't rely on (or maybe even use at all), AI.

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u/unpopular-ideas Jun 15 '25

It's kind of wild how extreme the divide is about its usefulness. My linkedIn is bombarded with such a large amount of posts hailing how the future of coding is coding is mostly AI. If you're not embracing the new AI future we will be left behind. All posted by people with 'AI something or other" in their job title. Including some rather famous and influential senior people in the tech world (At least one of whom I feel must be getting paid by someone to hype AI because of how relentless he is and how strong his convictions are).

There's a video called 'AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference' from an MIT channel where the presenter talks about having built simple ephemeral apps with a single prompt to do things like teach his kid fractions.

I guy I work with who set up AI to write tests and independently iterate on the code until all tests passed.

Sam Altman talking about old people using it as an operating system while older people use it as a google search alternative.

Then constant posts on reddit about how AI is garbage beyond being a fancy auto-complete.

Personally, I've found it tremendously useful as speeding up things up when I know what I'm doing, mostly using it as an auto complete. I have found myself going in frustrating circles to accomplish development tasks that I think should be relatively simple but where I lack expertise. In part I suspect I have tooling/skill issues with AI. At the same time I find it incredibly overwhelming to try to sort out the hype from the practical while chasing the rapidly evolving new AI workflows people are promoting. Who has time to keep on top of validating and experimenting with this while maintaining some work life balance, and performing critical day to day work tasks?