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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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I feel like literally everyone knows this now but theres so much invested in it theres no backing out.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -Upton Sinclair
Too many billionaires have a need to invest and a need for future gains. It's a mental compulsion.