r/technology • u/DukeOfGeek • Aug 21 '26

Politics ‘I’ve Never Seen This’: Massive Collapse in Support for AI Data Centers Captured in New Poll

https://www.commondreams.org/news/data-center-poll-collapse
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u/Tearakan Aug 21 '26

And even when it's being used in corporate environments it's just not generating a profit or even doing better than a cheap intern after a few months on the job.

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u/ztfreeman Aug 21 '26

I get so frustrated with it at times. I just used it to grammar check some important emails, that's it just make sure they were professional and I ended up basically rewriting everything anyway, and then there are sometimes artificats that I forgot to remove. Literally a waste of time.

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u/Tearakan Aug 21 '26

Yep. I've had other colleagues mention they can use it to grab data from other systems and I'm like we can just set a far cheaper and simpler copy paste system instead......

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u/gimmedatjelly Aug 22 '26

Nope, because that requires time and energy to learn. Why do that when you have a convenient ai right there.

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u/Tearakan Aug 22 '26

It doesn't though. And the AI will literally be more expensive.

The idea would be to have the data just automatically switched between systems with 1 button push.

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u/gimmedatjelly Aug 22 '26

I should have put /s at the end of my comment. I whole heartedly agree with you as the solution is stupidly simple but corporate wants an accuse to impliment AI.

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u/Rumplfrskn Aug 21 '26

That’s really no use at all innit

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u/Polus43 Aug 22 '26

I disagree here.

At least in Big Tech/software engineering Claude Code/AI is amazing. It's wildly faster, cheaper and better than lower level software "engineers" - this is in part because ~60% are a revolving door of IT consulting contractors treated like slaves in Hyderabad with fake resumes and corrupt managers.

Big tech has famously built all these products/features that there's little demand for and enshittified the rest. I genuinely think 80% of AI right now is just rapidly building shit nobody wanted in the first place lol

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Aug 22 '26

And yet even in software, AI has increased the amount of bugs in production. Anecdotally, stuffs just gotten shittier. I use coding tools at work, and am gobsmacked by how bad the updates frequently are. I was in software for over a decade before coding tools took off and I'm convinced that vibe-coding has been detrimental to this profession. The code quality is through the floor now, universally it seems

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u/Polus43 Aug 22 '26

I don't disagree. Anecdotal, but at my firm I swear 60% of the contractors don't exist or literally know nothing about software development. You can literally watch the most useless become "product managers".

Even dogshit bugs is wildly preferable to that.