Is it Zuckerberg wanting to create a fear narrative, like "we'll never be able to catch up with China," or now "Zuckerberg can't even keep up with his competitors." Or is it possibly just tech bros believing each other's hype again, and actually fearing "AI" that's really just 700 engineers in a trenchcoat.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
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Its the latter. But the AI CEOs pushing AI know it's 90% hot air. It always is. Most of them are in on the joke, so to speak (aside from a few zealots). What they really fear is the investors realizing they've been hyping crap that isn't making a return and might not ever make a return and losing confidence. If that happens then the stock price takes a dive, and they may be less quick to buy back in - and for Zuck he's bet big on stupid investments more than once, so investors are becoming gun shy.
Personally I'm hoping it all crumbles and people become embarrassed to mention AI in a couple years like they are with NFTs now. After all that's why I'm on this sub, LLM mania sucks for soo many reasons.
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NFT... I'm certainly not embarrassed with my NFCs!
Thanks, prior comment was written while quite tired. Edited it 👍
zuckerberg android cant understand human feelings to care.
META is hiring real people with AI?
It's a vicious cycle
As someone working at a company seeing ~1.75x usable, clean output improvements and productivity increases due to AI adoption...part of me wonders if Meta is doing this to try and dissuade competition while secretly continuing apace.
Another part of me sees a large part of AI as a bubble that 9/10 sucks and maybe Meta is being honest.
Meta has thrown so many billions at fantastic projects that completely fail. In 20 years, what have they figured out besides selling ads and outrage?
React.js, though that may fall under "outrage"
I'm confused by your comment You start by praising AI, 75% productivity increase is immense. Then you say 9/10 of it sucks. What's the rub? Personal vs professional opinion?
Maybe the first stat is a cooked number.
Like llms are generating stuff quickly, boosting some metrics, but generating more work because it is all bullshit.
Whether AI helps you will depend heavily on your baseline, your domain, your tech stack, how you've incorporated it, your business pattern, how and whether you market it, ...
What's your business?
isnt metas AI mostly concentrated in facebook anyways?