The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy

AI is the only 'technology' that nobody knows what it solves. If it is a fridge, people buy it. If its a dishwasher, people buy it. The use cases of these technologies are immediately understood. AI is pushed down hard by the 'leaders', C-suite is pushing everyone to use AI at most companies. Nobody knows what its supposed to help with but a great many people claim 'success' with AI. Every full text search that was perfectly working before got converted to AI search and is instantly 100x worse. Same with lots of customer facing FAQs, customer support, etc.

Meanwhile, 67% of my time is gone fixing autocorrect on apple devices.

A million different people: I've used AI in X way and it helped me.

You: No one knows anything AI helps with.

Yeah, okay, if you ignore everything every user says then it is indeed a mystery.

How much astroturfing is happening online? These companies certainly have the funds to do so on a wide scale

The only thing I trust about these right now is my own experience