#nikhilsuresh — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/

"Being a software engineer, he got to spend a little bit of time backstage with the developers, whereupon they revealed that most of the demos were faked ... Didn't stop them spouting absolute gibberish to a breathless audience for an hour though! I blame not the engineers, who probably tried to actually get the damn thing to work, but the lying blowhards who insisted that they must make the presentation or presumably be terminated."

#NikhilSuresh, 2024

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

(1/2)

#unions

"However, some projects simply do not have an easy way to tack on the AI label, or the person advocating for them either does not want to lie or has not understood that lying has become necessary. In all cases, this either kills the request for funding outright, or adds a pervasive and intractable drag on all communications, as every request must be worked and re-worked until it is 'AI enough'."

#NikhilSuresh, 2026

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

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#TechFunding #funding

"This means that all offers that are subject to internal politics at an ideologically captured organisation must include AI alignment, even if the value proposition is patently ambiguous. My assessment of the market so far is that a substantial component of the outburst of AI projects are actually non-AI projects with an AI element slapped on after the fact to pass the purity test."

#NikhilSuresh, 2026

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

I remember this happening with crypto for a few years.

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"... effective decisionmaking has ground to a halt. Collectively, what started as a few people undergoing either destabilising psychological events or being caught up in hype has now resulted in an environment where leaders cannot speak honestly about their beliefs on how best to guide organisations, for fear of being removed, creating a sort of distributed government by assassination."

#NikhilSuresh, 2026

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

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"'Checking out a parallel copy of our Go repository and telling the AI to rewrite the whole thing in Zig while I work on something else just so I can keep my job. I hate this shit so much. My job has usage tracking and quotas. I don’t use it for actual work, I just spin it up and disregard the output'.

– An actual software engineer"

#NikhilSuresh, 2026

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

So apparently much of the measurable demand for a Trained #MOLE services isn't actually real ...

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#AIBubble

"These mandates have led to extremely strange places. Several of my peers now “
'AI-wash' their work, meaning that even when they can perfectly competently execute on their jobs to the satisfaction of their management teams, said managers are unhappy if the engineers haven’t used AI in the work… so now they’re lying about using LLMs even in contexts where their professional judgement is that they aren’t the appropriate tool."

#NikhilSuresh, 2026

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

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#AI #AIWashing