Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid? Just as the title says, isn't it stupid to run AI in a production environment before we have addressed some pretty major fucking problems with it? |
Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid? Just as the title says, isn't it stupid to run AI in a production environment before we have addressed some pretty major fucking problems with it? |
Short term --- AI can generate code so let's fire those pesky, expensive developers.
Long term --- AI is terrible at maintaning the code it has generated. We need more human developers who can understand and fix this mess.
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-black-box-problem-why-ai-...
I think the overall push, even when it doesn’t make sense is also stupid, but at least it’s tempered with a little logic to keep production a bit safer.
I get great joy from reading stories of AI in prod gone wrong.
Only reason humans need to be in the loop is so there is someone to blame or hold accountable in a legal sense.
It makes me want to pull out the hair I used to have an scream into the wilderness and eat a twinkie.
the timed/automated hammer forging machine continues working regardless of whether or not an operator is at the helm. it will chop as many hands as you feed it.
we are at the point where a lot of value can be leveraged from AI by using it like a hand tool (a hammer), and in doing so one will avoid most of the chopped hands that a fully automatic factory has to offer.
Another way to look at it is that the operator of the hammer has an immediate feedback loop and will not continue with a broken hammer. AI as it stands rarely has that feedback on the consequences of its decisions, and lacks the ability to react appropriately.
as in, providing self hosted models? or running Claude code/Codex? or using it for support? or what?
Fin.ai by telecom is a full product powered by LLMs and makes $100m ARR.
Make your point and save the attacks and maybe you can be helped.
For example, if you're writing code with AI, you can still review it just like you would if a colleague wrote it. You can write tests (or have the AI do so) to prevent some hallucinations, too.
edit to say, what is the point, after all, of artificial intelligence if it's not used to make decisions? That's what it does. But ALL AI HALLUCINATES. Therefore, it's unreliable.